Stanislaw Lem Quotes - Page 3

• Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

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  Humorous, Two, Roots

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

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  Children, Killing Someone, Wife

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• Cada civilización puede elegir uno de los dos caminos a recorrer, es decir, o bien inquietarse hasta la muerte, o bien acariciarse hasta la muerte. Y en el curso de hacer una u otra cosa, se come su camino en el Universo, convirtiendo cenizas y cenizas de estrellas en asientos de inodoro, clavijas, engranajes, boquillas de cigarrillos y fundas de almohada, y lo hace porque, incapaz de comprender el Universo, trata de cambiar esa insondabilidad en algo comprensible.

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  Stars, Two, Civilization

  "The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel. "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius", §10, 1974.

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• Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.

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  Men, Pigs, Doctrine

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• How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?

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  Ocean, Communicate

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• Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

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  Mountain, Stones, Enormous

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• This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past.

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  Mentir, Pasado, Hombres

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

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• A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

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  Men, Doe, Proud

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• Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

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  Hombres, Edad, Doe

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 198, 1961.

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• Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

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  Men, Fire, Objectivity

  Stanislaw Lem (1983). “Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

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  Emptiness, Felt

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• People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.

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  People, Filthy

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• I'll grant the random access to my heart,
  Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love;
  And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove
  And in our bound partition never part.

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  Humorous, Heart, Two

  "The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, 1974.

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• Que componga un poema... ¡un poema sobre un corte de pelo! Pero elevado, noble, trágico, intemporal, lleno de amor, traición, retribución, heroísmo tranquilo ante una fatalidad segura. Seis versos, ingeniosamente rimados, y cada palabra empezando por la letra s.

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  Faces, Six, Heroism

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

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  Fear, Night, Glasses

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• You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.

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  Believe, Doubt, Finals

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

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  Horse, Eye, Men

  Stanislaw Lem (1996). “Highcastle: A Remembrance”, Mariner Books

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• Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.

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  Dream, Stars, Spring

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We didn't know each other well. I never had the time. Now I see that it doesn't make any difference. The ones who hurry and the ones who take their time all end up in the same place. Just don't have any regrets. No regrets.

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  Regret, Differences, Ends

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• ...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

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  Believe, Monsters, Easy

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.

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  Spiritual, Men, Purpose

  "Fiasco". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, 1987.

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• Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world (from where?), space is by far the less mysterious. It, too, undergoes transformations. Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would even say against human nature.

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  Hands, Two, Space

  "Highcastle: A Remembrance".

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• So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox.

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  Amor, Hombres, Orden

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• The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order.

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  War, Order, Evil

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “One Human Minute”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Practically all SF is trash.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Basura

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