Philip Gordon Wylie (May 12, 1902 – October 25, 1971) was an American author of works ranging from pulp science fiction, mysteries, social diatribes and satire, to ecology and the threat of nuclear holocaust.
Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
There is no advance without strife.
Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.
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.
Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
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.
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.
Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.
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.
So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.