Philip Wylie Quotes

• One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

  Philip Wylie

  Teacher, Appreciation, Citizens

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• Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

  Philip Wylie

  Blessing, Simplicity, Simple Life

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

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  Ignorance, Determined, Kind

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

  Philip Wylie

  Freedom, Mean, Liberty

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• 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.

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  Wise, Cheer, Men

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• 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

  Stars, Children, School

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• Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

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  Lying, Destiny, Men

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• 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.

  Philip Wylie

  Men, Long, Gears

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• 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.

  Philip Wylie

  Dream, Children, Ideas

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• Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

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  Inferiority, Individual, Superiority

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.

  Philip Wylie

  Powerful, People, Minorities

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

  Philip Wylie

  Education, Cities, Church

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.

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  Eye, Men, Parent

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• There is no advance without strife.

  Philip Wylie

  Strife

  Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “After Worlds Collide”, p.185, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Men, Rome, Average

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• The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

  Philip Wylie

  Trying, Liberty, Quality

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• But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

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  Men, Blood, Brain

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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

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  Done, Doers, Certain Knowledge

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• God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

  Philip Wylie

  Hate, People, Religion

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• So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.

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  Artist, Would Be, Phrases

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• 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.

  Philip Wylie

  Mean, People, Kind

  PHILIP WYLIE (1943). “CORPSES AT INDIAN STONES”

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• The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

  Philip Wylie

  Book, League, May

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