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Stanisław Jerzy Lec Quotes

1909–1966 Poland

Stanisław Jerzy Lec (6 March 1909 – 7 May 1966) was a Polish poet and aphorist.

Poland
Poets

Also known as: Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy, Lec, Stanisław Jerzy, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Stanislaw Lec

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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

Foucault's Pendulum (1989)

The window on the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

The richer your imagination, the poorer you feel.

Those who are ahead of their time often have to wait for it in uncomfortable quarters.

Power for the World (2010)

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

More Unkempt Thoughts (1964)

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

The first condition of immortality is death.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

I wanted to tell the world just one word. Unable to do it I became a writer.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

The Order of the Garter usually goes to people who already have full wardrobes.

More Unkempt Thoughts (1964)

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

What is chaos? It is the Order destroyed during Creation.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stanisław Jerzy Lec (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.