Philip Wylie

“What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!”

“There is no advance without strife.”

“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.”

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

“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 to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.”