Philip Wylie
Philip Wylie
Philip Gordon Wyliewas a prolific American author of works ranging from pulp science fiction, mysteries, social diatribes and satire, to ecology and the threat of nuclear holocaust...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 May 1902
CountryUnited States of America
men civilization cities
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.
wise cheer men
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.
eye men parent
The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.
men blood brain
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.
lying destiny men
Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.
men long gears
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.
mean people kind
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.
book league novelists
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)
done doers certain
Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken
strife
There is no advance without strife.
ignorance determined kind
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
trying liberty quality
The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.
dream children ideas
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.
hate people common
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.