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

- Philip Wylie

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

- Philip Wylie

There is no advance without strife.

- 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

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

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

- Philip Wylie

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

- Philip Wylie

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, wheth…

- 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