Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes - Page 2

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories

Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.

Do I believe? God only knows.

Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

Politics: a Trojan horse race.

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.