Top 100 Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
#1. An error becomes an error when born as truth.
#2. The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
#3. Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?
#4. Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
#5. Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
#6. When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
#7. A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
#8. At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.
#9. Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse.
#10. Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.
#11. In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
#12. Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.
#13. Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
#14. We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.
#15. He who limps is still walking.
#16. Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.
#17. Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?
#18. The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
#19. Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
#20. Even his ignorance is encyclopedic.
#21. A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.
#22. Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.
#23. All Gods were immortal.
#24. Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.
#25. Their bodies were so close together that there was no room for real affection.
#26. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
#27. Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
#28. What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.
#29. First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
#30. It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.
#31. Even the masochists tell everything when tortured. From sheer gratitude.
#32. The first condition of immortality is death.
#33. When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.
#34. The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
#35. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
#36. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
#37. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
#38. The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
#39. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
#40. Oh, to know God's private address.
#41. Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers ... of other countries.
#42. Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.
#43. Illiterates have to dictate.
#44. The first requisite for immortality is death.
#45. Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
#46. Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand
#47. Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
#48. Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
#49. Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.
#50. Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
#51. One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them
#52. Pants get shiny even on a throne.
#53. Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.
#54. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
#55. The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers
#56. Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.
#57. Telling lies does not work in advertising.
#58. Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by Rene Clair "Vive la Liberte" a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei.
#59. The exit is usually where the entrance was.
#60. We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing.
#61. How many prison years in the years since Christ!
#62. Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?
#63. Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.
#64. The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
#65. The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.
#66. Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
#67. To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
#68. A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
#69. Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.
#70. Powerless rage can work miracles.
#71. He had a clear conscience. Never used it.
#72. You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
#73. Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.
#74. Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
#75. Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump
#76. The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.
#77. An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.
#78. When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
#79. The greater the dark, the easier to be a star.
#80. Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
#81. Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.
#82. All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
#83. Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
#84. Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
#85. Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
#86. I has a dream about reality. It was such a relief to wake up.
#87. Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.
#88. Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
#89. People find life entirely too time-consuming.
#90. Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.
#91. Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.
#92. He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.
#93. Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
#94. On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss
#95. There are parodies of non-existent things.
#96. I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.
#97. Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
#98. Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.
#99. If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
#100. Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.
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