The first requisite for immortality is death.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Silence
You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Faith
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Progress
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Intellectuals, Intelligence
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Celebration, Change, Parties
Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Faith, Belief, Beliefs
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Media
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Truth
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Life and Living
He who limps still walks.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Blessings
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Patience
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don’t bite everybody.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Thinking, Thought, Thoughts
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Snow, Responsibility
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Strength
You will always find some Eskimos willing to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Advice
The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: God
The first condition of immortality is death.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
He who limps is still walking.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Action
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Celebration, Parties, Change
When everything has to be right, something isn’t.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Perfection