Stanislaw Lem Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• 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

  Believe, Passion, Ideas

• Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Desire, Purpose, Betrayed

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

  Stanislaw Lem

  Feelings, Progress, Purpose

• It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Spiritual, Men, Purpose

  "Fiasco". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, 1987.

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