Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
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Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.
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Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
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A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.
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Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.
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All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
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You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.
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Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.
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Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
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A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
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You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.
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When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.
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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.
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Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
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A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.
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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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The first requisite for immortality is death.
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In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
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The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
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Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.
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He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.