Quotes of Stanislaw Lem - somelinesforyou

“ Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Wandering across the vast room, I stopped at a set of shelves as high as the ceiling, and holding about six hundred volumes all classics on the history of Soalris, starting with the nine volumes of Giese's monumental and already relatively obsolescent monograph. Display for its own sake was improbable in these surroundings. The collection was a respective tribute to the memory of the pioneers. I took down the massive volumes of Giese and sat leafing through them. Rheya had also located som reading matter. Looking over her shoulder, I saw that she had picked one of the many books brought out by the first expedition, the Interplanetary Cookery Book, which could have been the personal property of Giese himself. She was pouring over the recipes adapted to the arduous conditions of interstellar flight. I said nothing, and returned to the book resting on my knees. Solaris Ten Years of Exploration had appeared as volumes 412 of the Solariana collection whose most recent additions were numbered in the thousands. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. ”

- Stanislaw Lem

“ Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. ”

- Stanislaw Lem
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