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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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Stanislaw Lem
Age: 84 †
Born: 1921
Born: September 12
Died: 2006
Died: March 27
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I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.
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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
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Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
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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.
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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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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.
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The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.
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Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.
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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.
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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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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
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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.
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What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.
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We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.
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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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Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.
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There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do.
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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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No one reads if someone does read, he doesn't understand if he understands, he immediately forgets.
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I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.
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