Philip Wylie Quotes
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.
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.
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, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.
Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken
So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.
Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.
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 to cheer and follow.