189 Quotes by Stanisław Lem

El ser humano ha emprendido el viaje en busca de otros mundos, otras civilizaciones, sin haber conocido a fondo sus propios escondrijos, sus callejones sin salida, sus pozos, o usus oscuras puertas atrancadas."- "Solaris

Kryterium zdrowego rozsądku nie jest do historii ludzkiej stosowalne. Czy Averroes, Kant, Sokrates. Newton, Wolter, uwierzyliby, że w wieku dwudziestym plagą miast, trucicielem płuc, masowym mordercą, przedmiotem kultu stanie się blaszany wózek na kółkach i że ludzie będą woleli ginąć w nim rozstrzaskiwani podczas masowych weekendowych wyjazdów, aniżeli siedzieć cało w domu?

No, Trurl, a sufferer is not one who hands you his suffering, that you may touch it, weigh it, bite it like a coin; a sufferer is one who behaves like a sufferer!

...the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.

One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.

Гнев, который ты испытываешь сейчас, вскоре сменится бессильным отчаянием, а его в свою очередь после многих, столь же бурных, сколь и напрасных, усилий спастись заменит тупое безразличие. (Вух - Автоматею)

Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard

He also said - pointedly - that space travel nowadays was an escape from the problems of Earth. That is, one took off for the stars in the hope that the worst would happen and be done with in one's absence. And indeed I couldn't deny that more than once I had peered anxiously out the porthole - especially when returning from a long voyage - to see whether or not our planet resembled a burnt potato.

How many extraordinary phenomena like this, so foreign to human comprehension, might lie concealed in space? Do we need to travel everywhere bringing destructive power on our ships, so as to smash anything that runs counter to our understanding?