Quotes from Unkempt Thoughts — Stanisław Jerzy Lec
1909–1966 Poland
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Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
The first condition of immortality is death.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
All is in the hands of Man. Therefore you should wash them often.
Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.
All of our separate fictions add up to joint reality.
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
There were grammatical errors even in his silence.
Open Sesame — I want to get out.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stanisław Jerzy Lec (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.