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Philip Wylie Biography

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.

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

Blessing, Blessings, Pay, Simple Life, Simplicity, Weirdly

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

Certain Knowledge, Doer, Doers, Done, Understand

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

Teacher, Appreciation, Citizens, Delinquent, Lifetime

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.

Former, Kind, Like, Mean, People

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

Determined, Ignorance, Kind, Oblivion

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

Corrupted, Liberty, Quality, Trying

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Freedom, Improve, Liberty, Mean

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, Individual, Men, Solitary

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, Express, Ideas, Infancy, Upbraided

There is no advance without strife.

Strife, Advance

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.

Attila, Average, City, Clothes, Men, Rome

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Individual, Inferiority, National, Superiority

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

Eye, Eyes, Men, Momism, Parent, Today

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.

Cheer, Human, Lead, Louts, Men, Wise

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

Lying, Destiny, Men, Half, Literally

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