Colin Wilson Quotes

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Life without power is death.

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live.

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'

It's simple until you make it complicated.

People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

Does Fang have an off switch? Talon asked Vane.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.