Quotes from Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

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

There are parodies of non-existent things.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Do I believe? God only knows.

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

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

Oh, to know God's private address.

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

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

He who limps is still walking.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

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

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

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