In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the process is mere dreaming, that it wastes time and leads nowhere. It is said to be "impractical." As the child grows and its imagination inevitably leads it to express unconventional ideas and to try new behavior, it is chided and even viciously punished for such signs of unorthodoxy.
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 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.
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. - Philip Wylie
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
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
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.
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…
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 …
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