141 Quotes by Stanisław Jerzy Lec

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

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

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

Do I believe? God only knows.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

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

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?