Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Stanisław Jerzy Lec, born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, was a Polish aphorist and poet. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of post-war Poland, he was one of the more influential aphorists on the 20th century, known for lyrical poetry and skeptical philosophical-moral aphorisms, often with a political subtext...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 March 1909
CountryPoland
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes about
lying soul body
Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
stupid pay idiot
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
silence language foreigners
If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
sweet writing perspective
A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
atheist believe comeback
Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.
atheism mouths littles
The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
want synthesis antithesis
Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?
men next generations
Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.
believe atheism knows
Do I believe? God only knows.
wise saws branches
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
ignorance men now-and-then
Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
wall cells next
Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
mathematics figures mathematical
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
honesty writing artist
Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.