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 Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
“A thought that had been in the archives of his mind for many months came sharply into relief: of all human beings alive, the… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
“There are three categories of criteria that an individual must meet in order to be diagnosed with ASD. The categories are listed below along… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
“But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that you are… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
“it is only the unthinking mind that finds anything unthinkable. To use the word is just to show your membership card in the society… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
“We made up our own religions and pretended they came from outside us.” — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
