Quotes by Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie

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.

Average

Men

Rome

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

Minorities

People

Powerful

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.

Blood

Brain

Men

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.

Gears

Long

Men

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

Church

Cities

Education

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

Hate

People

Religion

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.

Kind

Mean

People

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Freedom

Liberty

Mean

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

Determined

Ignorance

Kind

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.

Children

Dream

Ideas

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Artist

Average

Blessing

Blood

Book

Brain

Certain Knowledge

Cheer

Children

Church

Cities

Citizens

Destiny

Determined

Doers

Done

Dream

Education

Eye

Freedom

Gears

Hate

Ideas

Ignorance

Individual

Inferiority

Kind

League

Liberty

Long

Lying

May

Mean

Men

Minorities

Parent

People

Phrases

Powerful

Quality

Religion

Rome

School

Simple Life

Simplicity

Stars

Strife

Superiority

Teacher

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Quotes by Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

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

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