We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth… — 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 defended in good faith. One can, of course, disperse one's life over the contingencies of every day, but even then it is only a ceaseless and desperate desire to live, and finally a regret that one… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share
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
