Quotes by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec - Page 3

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
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Agree
Figures
Math
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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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If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
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Foreigners
Language
Silence
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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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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
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Advice
Ironic
Writing
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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
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Change
Happy
Smile
Feet
Joy
Jumping
Moving
Beneath
Beware
Ground
Jump
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Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?
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Eye
Rivers
Swimming
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Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.
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Advice
Branches
Trying
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The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
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Citizens
Constitution
Country
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A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
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Censorship
Doe
Excited
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Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
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Men
Doubt
Stupid
Begins
Himself
Reassured
Whenever
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The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
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Funny
Life
Cute Love
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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Pleasure
Reading
Books
Shares
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Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
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Commitment
Determination
Waiting
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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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Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
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Men
Generations
Growth
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You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.
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Luck
Ready
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Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
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Eye
Remember
Should
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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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Men
Being Yourself
Horse
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Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
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Cells
Next
Wall
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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
Giants
Trying
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If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
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Idiot
Pay
Stupid
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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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Atheism
Guilt
Stones
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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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Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
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Body
Lying
Soul
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Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
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Human Beings
Humans
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Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
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Inspirational
Life
Intelligent
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There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.
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Atheism
Sides
Trying
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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Mediocre
Pay
Choose
First Of All
None
Rent
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Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.
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Atheism
Blood
Devil
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