So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.
There is no advance without strife. - 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
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. …
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. - Philip Wylie
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
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
Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. - Philip Wylie
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
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
Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.
The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind. - Philip Wylie
The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.
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
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 …
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
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
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