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Top 15 Philip Wylie Quotes (2025 Update)

Philip Wylie Quote: “Ignorance is not bliss – it is oblivion.”

1. “Ignorance is not bliss – it is oblivion.”

— Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie Quote: “One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.”

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

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Philip Wylie Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Philip Wylie Quote: “Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.”

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

— Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie Quote: “The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.”

5. “The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.”

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Philip Wylie Quote: “The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.”

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

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Philip Wylie Quote: “Man’s destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.”

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

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Philip Wylie Quote: “If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.”

8. “If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.”

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Philip Wylie Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie Quote: “Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.”

10. “Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.”

— Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie Quote: “Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.”

11. “Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.”

— Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Philip Wylie Quote: “They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo – their kind. To limbo.”

13. “They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo – their kind. To limbo.”

— Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie Quote: “God must hate common people, because he made them so common.”

15. “God must hate common people, because he made them so common.”

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Philip Wylie Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie Quote: “Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind .”

17. “Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind .”

— Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie Quote: “Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken.”

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

— Philip Wylie

Philip Wylie Quote: “The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.”

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

— Philip Wylie

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