Sad to read of the passing of Colin Wilson, a truly open-minded polymath, whose books, exhaustive range of interests, freedom of expression and seemingly boundless productivity I long found inspiring.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding - Kahlil Gibran
Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience - Aldous Huxley in a letter to George Orwell http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/1984-v-brave-new-world.html
Why do you stay in prison when the door is wide open? - Rumi
Whenever you are faced with a choice between liberty and security, choose liberty - Benjamin Franklin
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use - Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways - Bertrand Russell http://www.worldhum.com/features/speakers-corner/journey-to-ithaca-2010…
No longer to be poisoned by civilisation he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild - Chris McCandless
Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy.We are all depndent on one another, every soul of us on earth - Shaw
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding - Kahlil Gibran