The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed. Colin Wilson More Quotes by Colin Wilson More Quotes From Colin Wilson I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books. Colin Wilson prettyhowalwayshard Boredom, passivity, stagnation: these are the beginning of mental illness, which propagates itself like the scum on a stagnant pond. Colin Wilson The mentally healthy individual is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant - so that only the surface is disturbed - begins to suffer from‘circulation problems’. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers. Colin Wilson This is one of the most urgent problems for civilized man. He has created civilization to give him security. Security for what? For boredom? His chief problem seems to be that most human beings need a certain amount of challenge, of external stimulus, to stop them from sinking into the blank stare and blank consciousness of the idiot. Colin Wilson Knowing more about how and where water exists on present-day Mars is essential to understand what happened to Mars' once-abundant water, and helps our search for habitable environments, possible signs of past life, and organic materials from Mars' earliest days. Colin Wilson
