Quotes from Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Ich stimme mit der Mathematik nicht überein. Ich meine, dass die Summe von Nullen eine gefährliche Zahl ist.

En el principio era el Verbo y en el final el lugar común.

Das Leben zwingt den Menschen zu allerlei freiwilligen Handlungen.

Cómo ejercitar la memoria para que aprenda a olvidar?

Es extraño que resulte tan difícil despertar ecos hasta en las cabezas huecas.

Quien olvida fácilmente, pasa mejor el examen de su vida.

La voz de la conciencia también pasa por un cambio de voz

Zwei Parallelen begegnen sich in der Unendlichkeit und sie glauben daran.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

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

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

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

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Powerless rage can work miracles.