Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes & Sayings

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

People find life entirely too time-consuming. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do I believe? God only knows. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Even his ignorance is encyclopedic. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not make gods in your own images. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Their bodies were so close together that there was no room for real affection. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The exit is usually where the entrance was. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

The greater the dark, the easier to be a star. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

There are parodies of non-existent things. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The first requisite for immortality is death. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

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There were grammatical errors even in his silence. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Value your words. Each one may be the last. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Telling lies does not work in advertising. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I has a dream about reality. It was such a relief to wake up. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by Rene Clair "Vive la Liberte" a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

He had a clear conscience. Never used it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers ... of other countries. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

How many prison years in the years since Christ! — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A tired exclamation mark is a question mark. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Pants get shiny even on a throne. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Illiterates have to dictate. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The first condition of immortality is death. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

All Gods were immortal. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Even the masochists tell everything when tortured. From sheer gratitude. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

An error becomes an error when born as truth. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec