Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump

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

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

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

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

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

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

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

Illiterates have to dictate.

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

The first condition of immortality is death.

He who limps is still walking.

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

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

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

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

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

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

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

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

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

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

Pants get shiny even on a throne.

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

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

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

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

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

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

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

Powerless rage can work miracles.

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

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.

Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

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