Colin Wilson Quotes

The problem with people is that they're only human.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

I like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

We're just kind of dark as humans, generally.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

There are things you have to look at with those world-class players, but at the end of the day, they're not superheroes. They're still human.

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

History ... is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

I have spent seventy years finding out that I am not God.

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.