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A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
For truly, what computer has not asked whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous instructions?
— Stanislaw Lem
I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to....
Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to. — Stanislaw Lem
Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
— Stanislaw Lem
When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Wounds heal and become scars, but scars grow with us.
— Joseph Stanislaw
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.
— Stanislaw Ulam
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
All perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions on the surface of the brain cells.
— Stanislaw Lem
You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.
— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
He had a clear conscience. Never used it.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Do I believe? God only knows.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard
— Stanislaw Lem
We are the cause of our own sufferings.
— Stanislaw Lem
If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
— Stanislaw Lem
It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded
— Stanislaw Lem
There must be repressed truth even in lies.
— Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Do not make gods in your own images.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
We're not searching for anything except people. We don't need other worlds. We need mirrors.
— Stanislaw Lem
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Love is love insofar as it obliges us to love and, as we respond to its call, becomes ever more truly love.
— Stanislaw Grygiel
Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
He who limps is still walking.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The exit is usually where the entrance was.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
— Stanislaw Lem
Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.
— Stanislaw Lem
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I wanted to stop her; in the darkness and silence we occasionally managed to throw off our despair for a while by making each other forget.
— Stanislaw Lem
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out.
— Fannie Flagg
The greater the dark, the easier to be a star.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There was a time we tormented one another with excessive honesty in the naive belief it would save us.
— Stanislaw Lem
Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Oh, to know God's private address.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.
— Stanislaw Lem
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
— Stanislaw Lem
I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.
— Stanislaw Lem
Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.
— Stanislaw Lem
A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.
— Stanislaw Lem
An error becomes an error when born as truth.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.
— Stanislaw Ulam
There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.
— Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.
— Stanislaw Ulam
When a man appears in a ridiculous light to a woman, all's lost for that man.
— Stanislaw Przybyszewski
Genius speaks only to genius.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.
— Stanislaw Lem
It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers ... of other countries.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar
— James St. James
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.
— Stanislaw Lem
If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
All Gods were immortal.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
