“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? Only good mind you. The rest had to be shoved somewhere out of sight, under the rug. Which History did at times politely, at… — 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
