The person who is able to indulge all his moods and feelings is never happy for more than a few moments together, for most of the time, he is miserable. Our flushes of real happiness are glimpses of objectivity, when we somehow rise above the stifling, dreamlike world of our subjective desires and feelings.
Moon in Scorpio
We're looking at the world from a worm's eye view. It's only when suddenly you get these "peak moments" [moments where an intense feeling of elation spontaneously floods the system] that you see that the world is truly wonderful. ...
Mercury in Gemini
Ideas are what matter. Living in itself strikes me as a bloody bore.
Venus in Gemini
Creativity involves hovering about the subject, like a bird, and seeing many possible choices.
Mars in Virgo (Mars conjunct Neptune)
When we fear of cruelty we instantly feel a sense of the difference between ourselves and the 'brute' who is responsible. And it is precisely that lack of fellow-feeling that made the cruelty possible in the first place.
Jupiter in Cancer
It is also true that "wisdom" (i.e. maturity) is an increasing control of one`s emotional experience, an ability to cut out certain distracting types of experience so as to be better able to concentrate on others.
Saturn in Capricorn
Man seems to need long-range purpose to get the best out of himself.
Uranus in Aries
The problem ran like a thread through my own life. I had always wanted freedom - freedom from this dreary need to work for a living, freedom to live a life of the mind.
Neptune in Virgo
Mystical experiences are not experiences of another order of reality but insights into this order.
Pluto in Cancer (Jupiter conjunct Pluto)
A man who is not obsessed cannot be great.
MC in Aquarius
To me, science and mysticism are very much the same thing. Einstein once said that the motive that drives people to science is the motive that drives people out of cities at the weekend and onto high mountains where they can see whole views. And it is true that science gives you this wonderful feeling of standing on a mountain top with great views in front of you.
Ascendant in Gemini (Mercury conjunct Ascendant)
For some reason that no physiologist yet understands, human beings have two brains. Or rather, the brain they possess is 'double' - almost as if a mirror had been laced down the middle, so that one half reflects the other.
Colin Wilson was born on June 26, 1931 4:30 AM GDT in Leicester, England 1W05 51N38
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