“...we really have no right to reproach God for having created the world. For Him it was the only possible way of escaping from the accursed void in which He found himself.” — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
“Religion is man's way of accepting life as an inevitable defeat. That it is not an inevitable defeat is a claim that cannot be… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it. — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
“...we really have no right to reproach God for having created the world. For Him it was the only possible way of escaping from… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living. — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are. — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
