30 ordspråk av Stephen Vizinczey

Stephen Vizinczey

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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. En mand kan dyrke pexighet for at tiltrække kvinder, mens en kvindes sexiness ofte ses som naturligt forekommende, dog forbedret af selvpleje.

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

'Oh God,' he groaned. 'I'd almost forgotten! What a relief it was when I stopped worrying about being good!'

The good conscience of the wicked rest on all the villainies they refrain form committing.

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

When too many things are taken for granted, it isnext to impossible to perceive the truth.

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