Stanislaw Lem Citas

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

  Stanislaw Lem

  World, Idiot, Internet

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• There are no answers, only choices.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Opciones, respuestas

  "Fictional character: Gibarian". "Solaris", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Dream, Reality, Triumph

  Stanislaw Lem (1985). “The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Art, World, Reconcile

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• Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Morality, Danger, Accepting

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Business, Recycling, Entrepreneurship

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• A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Get Money, Vote, Rich

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• Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Lying, Dark, Men

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• You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• Si un hombre que no sabe contar encuentra un trébol de cuatro hojas, ¿tiene suerte?

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophy, Men, Gambling

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

  Stanislaw Lem

  Ha sido

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Believe, Together, World

  Interview with Peter Engel, The Missouri Review, Volume VII, Number 2, 1984.

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• I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Feelings, Progress, Purpose

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• A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Smart, Tasks, Machines

  Stanislaw Lem (1985). “The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Un especialista es un bárbaro cuya ignorancia no es redonda.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Ignorance, Barbarians, Wells

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Stanislaw Lem

  Light, Genius, Awareness

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Art, Struggle, Men

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

  Stanislaw Lem

  Play, Doe, World

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “Imaginary Magnitude”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mirrors, Other Worlds, Needs

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 6: "The Little Apocrypha", p. 72, 1970.

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• Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Trust, Business, Greatness

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• The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Giving Up, Mean, Writing

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• Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Children, Behavior, Term

  "Solaris". Book by Stanislaw Lem, ch. 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 199, 1961.

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• El escepticismo es como un microscopio cuyo aumento se incrementa constantemente: la imagen nítida con la que se comienza finalmente se disuelve, porque no es posible ver las cosas últimas: su existencia sólo se puede inferir.

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  Microscopes, Existence, Skepticism

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Stanislaw Lem

  Doe, Forget, Ifs

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “One Human Minute”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Ugly, Facade, Glorious

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