Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

- Philip Wylie

There is no advance without strife.

- Philip Wylie

In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. …

- Philip Wylie

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

- Philip Wylie

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

- Philip Wylie

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

- Philip Wylie

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together …

- Philip Wylie

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

- Philip Wylie

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

- Philip Wylie