Quotes by Stanislaw Lem

Stanislaw Lem

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

Believe

Easy

Monsters

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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.

Get Money

Rich

Vote

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

Dream

Reality

Triumph

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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.

Doe

Men

Proud

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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.

Machines

Smart

Tasks

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A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

Barbarians

Ignorance

Wells

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A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

Mirrors

Running

Should

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And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth’s other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

Dream

Son

Would Be

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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.

Art

Men

Struggle

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Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

Facade

Glorious

Ugly

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