All Stanislaw Lem Quotes
- 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
- The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself. Appears
- For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ… All
- We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices… Accept
- We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos. Boundaries
- And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not… Among
- The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions… Adequate
- For moral reasons ... the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it… Appears
- Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote. Don Quixote
- We didn't know each other well. I never had the time. Now I see that it doesn't make any difference. The ones who hurry and… All
- I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments. Behind
- A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought… Countrymen
- The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of… Any
- I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still… Abided
- ...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches. Believe
- If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky? Clover