Stanislaw Lec Quotes

#1. An error becomes an error when born as truth.

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#2. The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

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#3. Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

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#4. Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.

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#5. The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

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#6. Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

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#7. Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

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#8. When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

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#9. A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

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#10. Do not make gods in your own images.

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#11. At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

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#12. Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse.

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#13. Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

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#14. In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

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#15. Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

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#16. Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

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#17. We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.

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#18. He who limps is still walking.

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#19. When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

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#20. Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

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#21. Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?

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#22. The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

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#23. Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

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#24. Even his ignorance is encyclopedic.

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#25. "Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

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#26. A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

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#27. Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

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#28. Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

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#29. All Gods were immortal.

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#30. Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.

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#31. Their bodies were so close together that there was no room for real affection.

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#32. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

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#33. Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.

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#34. What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

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#35. I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

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#36. 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.

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#37. It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.

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#38. Even the masochists tell everything when tortured. From sheer gratitude.

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#39. The first condition of immortality is death.

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#40. A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

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#41. When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.

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#42. The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

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#43. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

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#44. If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.

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#45. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

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#46. There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

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#47. Do I believe? God only knows.

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#48. Value your words. Each one may be the last.

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#49. The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.

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#50. Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

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#51. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

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#52. Oh, to know God's private address.

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#53. Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers ... of other countries.

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#54. Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

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#55. If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

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#56. Illiterates have to dictate.

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#57. The first requisite for immortality is death.

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#58. Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

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#59. Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

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#60. Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

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#61. Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

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#62. We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

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#63. Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

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#64. Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

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#65. Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

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#66. One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

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#67. You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

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#68. Pants get shiny even on a throne.

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#69. A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

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#70. Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

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#71. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

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#72. The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

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#73. Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

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#74. Telling lies does not work in advertising.

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#75. Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

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#76. 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.

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#77. The exit is usually where the entrance was.

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#78. We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing.

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#79. How many prison years in the years since Christ!

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#80. Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

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#81. Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

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#82. Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

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#83. The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

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#84. The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.

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#85. Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

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#86. Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

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#87. To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?

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#88. Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

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#89. A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.

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#90. Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

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#91. Powerless rage can work miracles.

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#92. To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

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#93. He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

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#94. You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

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#95. Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

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#96. Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

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#97. Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump

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#98. Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

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#99. The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

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#100. An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

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