Famous Stanisaw Lem Quotes

  • The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself. – Stanisaw Lem

    The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.– Stanisaw Lem

  • Yes, it’s comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard – Stanisaw Lem

    Yes, it’s comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard– Stanisaw Lem

  • Simulant – something that doesn’t exist but pretends to….Dissimulant – an object that exists but pretends not to. – Stanisaw Lem

    Simulant – something that doesn’t exist but pretends to….Dissimulant – an object that exists but pretends not to.– Stanisaw Lem

  • I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained. – Stanisaw Lem

    I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.– Stanisaw Lem

  • A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming. – Stanisaw Lem

    A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming.– Stanisaw Lem

  • To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. – Stanisaw Lem

    To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.– Stanisaw Lem

  • War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture. – Stanisaw Lem

    War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.– Stanisaw Lem

  • I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone’s wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. – Stanisaw Lem

    I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone’s wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.– Stanisaw Lem

  • A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only.The Twenty-first Voyage – Stanisaw Lem

    A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only.The Twenty-first Voyage– Stanisaw Lem

  • Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain? – Stanisaw Lem

    Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?– Stanisaw Lem