189 Quotes by Stanisław Lem

I believe in no final solutions.

It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be.

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove And in our bound partition never part.

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.