Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

He who had dug his own grave not for himself.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Those who are ahead of their time often have to wait for it in uncomfortable quarters.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

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

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Politics: a Trojan horse race.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

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

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by René Clair Vive la Liberte a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei."

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

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

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

All of our separate fictions add up to joint reality.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

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

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

The Order of the Garter usually goes to people who already have full wardrobes.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

It is the high priests that make demands — not the gods they serve.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec