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A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple. — Stanislaw Ulam

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

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain? — Stanislaw Lem

Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to.
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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

But what am I going to see?
I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you. — Stanislaw Lem

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

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly. — Stanislaw Lem

An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Something peculiar is happening to my head. I remember that my father was Barnaby, but I had another named Balaton. Unless that's a lake in Albania. — Stanislaw Lem

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

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture. — 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

Every part contained a memory of the other parts it was directly attached to. — Stanislaw Lem

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

;he was at home whenever he could quench his thirst for knowledge; ... — Stanislaw Lem

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

It was not possible to think except with one's brain, no one could stand outside himself in order to check the functioning of his inner processes. — Stanislaw Lem

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

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. — Stanislaw Leszczynski