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Stanislaw Lem Quotes

Stanislaw Lem quotes

Polish Writer September 12, 1921 – March 27, 2006

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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 anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over. Stanislaw Lem
But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had no inkling of their crushing defeat. Stanislaw Lem
In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach eternity, spells to be cast, prayers to be liturgically fleshed. . . . The aesthetic component of those instruments enhanced their function but was never central, never an independent, nonutilitarian thing. Stanislaw Lem
Stanislaw Lem quote: "Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness."
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. Stanislaw Lem
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 Stanislaw Lem
We are only seeking Man. We have no need for other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilization superior of our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past." -Snow from Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Stanislaw Lem
This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past. Stanislaw Lem
I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. Stanislaw Lem
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 before. Stanislaw Lem
One of the most incredible secrets of science fiction (although one not too closely guarded) is the fact that 99 percent of its authors do not know even the titles and authors of today's learned works, but still they want to top these scholars with their knowledge of the year 6000. Stanislaw Lem
Stanislaw Lem quote: "all perception is but a change in the concentration of..."
...all perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions on the surface of the brain cells. Stanislaw Lem
The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself. Stanislaw Lem
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 the ones who take their time all end up in the same place. Just don't have any regrets. No regrets. Stanislaw Lem
What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is. Stanislaw Lem
The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass. Stanislaw Lem

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