Quotes by Stanisław Lem

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Good books tell the truth, even when they’re about things that never have been and never will be. They’re truthful in a different way.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don’t know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can’t accept it for what it is.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines..

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.

Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.