Stanisław Jerzy Lec quotes

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Illiterates have to dictate.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
The exit is usually where the entrance was. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
All of our separate fictions add up to joint reality.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec