Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

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

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

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

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

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

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

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

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

Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

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

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

When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.

Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

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

Politics: a Trojan horse race.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

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

Do I believe? God only knows.

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