If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
“. . . according to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets' --… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. (tr. by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox)” — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world (from where?), space is by far the… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? Only good mind you. The rest had to… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
“We know, but cannot grasp, that above and below, beyond the limits of perception or imagination, thousands of millions of simultaneous transformations are at… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share
