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A review by anotherpath
اللامنتمي by Colin Wilson, كولن ولسون
5.0
"The Outsider has his proper place in the Order of Society, as the impractical dreamer."
"These men are in prison: that is the Outsider's verdict. They are quite contented in prison--caged animals who have never known freedom; but it is a prison all the same."
"Then, as the Outsider's insight becomes deeper, so that he no longer sees men as a million million individuals, but instead sees the world-will that drives them all like ants in a formicary, he knows that they will never escape their stupidity and delusions, that no amount of logic and knowledge can make man any more than an insect; the most irritating of the human lice is the humanist with his puffed up pride in Reason and his ignorance of his own silliness."
"Humanism is only another method for spiritual laziness, or a vague half-creed adopted by men of science and logicians whose heads are too occupied with the world of mathematics and physics to worry about religious categories."
This is a book for bookish people. Bookish people of a certain type. It's mid-century, so Herman Hesse is about as modern as he covers within, but everyone he covered had me checking my collection and bumping up the urgency I have to read them, so interesting was the coverage.
Colin Wilson describes the Outsider and then attempts to give him a path forward. It's a challenging book in ways.
It's brilliant.
"These men are in prison: that is the Outsider's verdict. They are quite contented in prison--caged animals who have never known freedom; but it is a prison all the same."
"Then, as the Outsider's insight becomes deeper, so that he no longer sees men as a million million individuals, but instead sees the world-will that drives them all like ants in a formicary, he knows that they will never escape their stupidity and delusions, that no amount of logic and knowledge can make man any more than an insect; the most irritating of the human lice is the humanist with his puffed up pride in Reason and his ignorance of his own silliness."
"Humanism is only another method for spiritual laziness, or a vague half-creed adopted by men of science and logicians whose heads are too occupied with the world of mathematics and physics to worry about religious categories."
This is a book for bookish people. Bookish people of a certain type. It's mid-century, so Herman Hesse is about as modern as he covers within, but everyone he covered had me checking my collection and bumping up the urgency I have to read them, so interesting was the coverage.
Colin Wilson describes the Outsider and then attempts to give him a path forward. It's a challenging book in ways.
It's brilliant.