31 Quotes by Philip Wylie


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    So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.

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

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    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.

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    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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    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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    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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