Stanislaw Lem Quotes

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• I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

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  World, Idiot, Internet

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• A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

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  Dream, Reality, Triumph

  Stanislaw Lem (1985). “The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

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  Art, World, Reconcile

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• There are no answers, only choices.

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  Choices, Answers

  "Fictional character: Gibarian". "Solaris", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

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  Business, Recycling, Entrepreneurship

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• Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

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  Morality, Danger, Accepting

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

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  Lying, Dark, Men

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• A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

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  Get Money, Vote, Rich

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• You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

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  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

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  Ignorance, Barbarians, Wells

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.

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  Believe, Together, World

  Interview with Peter Engel, The Missouri Review, Volume VII, Number 2, 1984.

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• He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.

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  Has Beens

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

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  Philosophy, Men, Gambling

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• A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

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  Smart, Tasks, Machines

  Stanislaw Lem (1985). “The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.

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  Play, Doe, World

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “Imaginary Magnitude”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

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  Light, Genius, Awareness

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

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  Art, Struggle, Men

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• No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

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  Doe, Forget, Ifs

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “One Human Minute”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.

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  Feelings, Progress, Purpose

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• Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

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  Trust, Business, Greatness

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• We have no need of 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.

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  Mirrors, Other Worlds, Needs

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 6: "The Little Apocrypha", p. 72, 1970.

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• The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.

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  Giving Up, Mean, Writing

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• Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

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  Children, Behavior, Term

  "Solaris". Book by Stanislaw Lem, ch. 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 199, 1961.

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• Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

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  Ugly, Facade, Glorious

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• We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.

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  Philosophical, Leafs, Stuck

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