The Disappearance Quotes

“But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that you are already master of what it contains and that the author has written only so you may prove him wrong!”
― Philip Wylie, The Disappearance

“Faith's the agreement to abandon detachment, John! To supplant a packaged security for open integrity. To agree not to learn anymore. It is the acceptance of a channel, by a man who was previously able to move on the whole terrain”
― Philip Wylie, The Disappearance

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

“it is only the unthinking mind that finds anything unthinkable. To use the word is just to show your membership card in the society of morons.”
― Philip Wylie, The Disappearance

“We made up our own religions and pretended they came from outside us.”
― Philip Wylie, The Disappearance

“Imagination without logic is worthless. It conceives uncritically; pursued for its own sake, it but deforms the mind. Logic by itself is only futile; without imagination it can only reprove the proven and so discover nothing.”
― Philip Wylie, The Disappearance