A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.
Stanislaw LemBurn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.
Stanislaw LemHow do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you canโt even understand one another?
Stanislaw LemPsychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us and thereby command our attention. It sometimes happens, and such is the case here, that a simplification touching upon the truth, but cheaply, is of no more value than a lie. Once again we are shown the demon and the angel, the beast and the god locked in Manichean embrace, and once again man has been pronounced, by himself, not culpable.
Stanislaw Lem