About Stephen Vizinczey: Stephen Vizinczey is an author and writer.
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?
I wonder, what kind of life would I have had if it hadn’t been for my mother’s tea-and-cookie parties? Perhaps it’s because of them that I’ve never thought of women as my enemies, as territories I have to conquer, but always as allies and fri...
We think of ourselves as failures, rather than renounce our belief in the possibility of perfection. We hang on to the hope of eternal love by denying even its temporary validity. It´s less painful to think 'I'm shallow', 'She's self centred', 'We c...
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
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.
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
