A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the average American today and the hairy men with clubs who accompanied Attila to the city of Rome.
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. …
Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken - Philip Wylie
Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken
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.
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
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…
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