Unconventional Ideas Quotes by Philip Wylie

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• If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
• Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
• In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is…
• The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.
• 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 novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original…
• Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken
• There is no advance without strife.
• Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
• Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning…
• The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in…
• God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

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