Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

He who limps is still walking.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Pants get shiny even on a throne.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Oh, to know God's private address.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The first requisite for immortality is death.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

There are parodies of non-existent things.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

— 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

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

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is…

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The first condition of immortality is death.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

All Gods were immortal.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not make gods in your own images.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Politics: a Trojan horse race.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec