Stephen Vizinczey, originally István Vizinczey (born 1933, in Káloz, Hungary), is an author and writer.
Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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.
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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 centre of man's universe is the earth?
Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.
To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.
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
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.
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
To be great is to assume great concerns.
Consistency is a virtue for trains.