Quotes of Stephen Vizinczey - somelinesforyou

“ Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ 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? ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ 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. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ 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? ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ 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? ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ 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? ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ 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. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ 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. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ 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. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

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

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ 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. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey
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