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«Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.»
«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»
Author: Stephen Vizinczey
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Desire,
Dictators,
Feelings,
Thought
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dictatorship, dictatorships, instructing, lecture, lectured, lecturing, no-account
«Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.»
«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»
Author: Stephen Vizinczey
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capitalist, communist, evolved, feeds, ideological, mention, niche, niches, not to mention, purposefully, technological
«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.»
Author: Stephen Vizinczey
| Keywords:
alcoholic, alcoholics, engaged, justify, outsider, outsiders, portray, portrayed, portraying, sympathetically
«There are millions of people who think that having heard about something is the same as knowing it, and their notion of culture is a mixture of elegant lifestyle and big names.»
Author: Stephen Vizinczey
«When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.»
Author: Stephen Vizinczey
«We live under the tyranny of various professional groups, and all the 'influence' we could bring to bear on the running of schools, trains or power stations isn't sufficient to move a feather.»
Author: Stephen Vizinczey
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bear on, bring to, bring to bear, feather, trains, train station
«Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.»
«I submit that anyone who is trying to explain one thing in terms of something else has nothing important to say.»
Author: Stephen Vizinczey
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