The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.
Stanislaw LemMy pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.
Stanislaw LemI never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.
Stanislaw Lem