Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes - Quotations

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

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

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?

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

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

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

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

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

We know we are on the wrong track, but we are compensating for this shortcoming by accelerating.


The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

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

Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.

Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

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

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait.