All Stanislaw Lem Quotes
- We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf. Each
- A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance. Always Triumph
- To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. Inspirational
- You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. All
- There are no answers, only choices, Answers
- Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed… Ability
- When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, so… All
- Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a… Authentic
- Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Age
- Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the… Beginning
- Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort. Consequence
- Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not… Able
- If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently Differently
- The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass. Amorphous
- Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse… Cancel
- Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of… Breeze
- Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled… Bedecked
- I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas… Access
- In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting,… Banach
- Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in… All
- Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide. Humorous
- Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. Absolutely
- Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way Been
- There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then… Alarm
- Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. .… All