Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
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.
- Philip Wylie
There is no advance without strife. - Philip Wylie
There is no advance without strife.
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. …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. - Philip Wylie
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. - Philip Wylie
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