Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Country, Citizens, Constitution

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• Politics: a Trojan horse race.

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  Horse, Race, Trojans

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1957.

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• Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

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  Guilt, Atheism, Stones

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• On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss

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  Abyss, Edges

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• The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

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  Men, Bows, He Man

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• Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

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  Lasts, Illusion, Sentences

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• If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

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  Happiness, Men, Gambling

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• All Gods were immortal.

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  Political, Atheism, Immortal

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• When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.

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  Character, Blow, Wind Blowing

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• I has a dream about reality. It was such a relief to wake up.

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  Dream, Reality, Relief

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• I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

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  Punishment, Rewards

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• A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.

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  Sweet, Writing, Perspective

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• Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

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  Men, Generations, Next

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• Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?

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  Synthesis, Want, Antithesis

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• Illiterates have to dictate.

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• One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

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  Anarchy, Enough, Policemen

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

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  Men, Thinking, Make You Think

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• The exit is usually where the entrance was.

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  Writing, Exit, Entrances

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• Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

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  Being Yourself, Horse, Men

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• An error becomes an error when born as truth.

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  Errors, Atheism, Born

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• Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

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  Dwarves, Trying, Giants

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• Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

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  May, Turning Your Back, Sides

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• It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

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  Writing, Lifetime, Easy

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

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  Atheism, Mouths, Littles

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.

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  Zero, Thinking, Earth

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