Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes - Page 5

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• The first condition of immortality is death.

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  Writing, Firsts, Immortality

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• Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

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  Cash, Pay, Morality

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• People find life entirely too time-consuming.

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  Life, Time, People

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• An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

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  Secret, Envelopes, Empty

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• Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.

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  Fate, Perfect, Imitation

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• Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

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  Men, Growth, Generations

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• "Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

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  Atheism, Said, Young

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• Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

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  Lying, Soul, Body

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• Powerless rage can work miracles.

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  Miracle, Rage, Powerless

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• An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

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  Half, Aphorism

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• Do not make gods in your own images.

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  Atheism, Positive Atheism

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• Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

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  Wise, Branches, Saws

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• Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

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  Believe, Punishment, Soul

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• There are parodies of non-existent things.

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  Atheism, Parody, Positive Atheism

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• You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

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  Faith, Atheism, Vices

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• Pants get shiny even on a throne.

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  Thrones, Pants

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• Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

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  December, Sigh, Has Beens

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• Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

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  Peace, War, Sacrifice

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• How many prison years in the years since Christ!

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  Years, Atheism, Prison

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• Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

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  Inspirational, Life, Intelligent

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• The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Spirit

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• Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

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  Needs, Legends, Stuff

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• Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

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  Humans, Human Beings

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