"Common man has at long last got himself……" — Philip Wylie
"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."
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Philip Wylie
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19 Quotes by Philip Wylie
Philip Wylie has 19 quotes on this site.
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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
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Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
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In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided.…
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The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.
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I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the…
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The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet…
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Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was…
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There is no advance without strife.
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Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
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The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first…
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God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
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A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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