Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.
Stanislaw Lem
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Stanislaw Lem
Age: 84 †
Born: 1921
Born: September 12
Died: 2006
Died: March 27
Essayist
Futurist
Philosopher
Physician
Playwright
Poet
Researcher
Satirist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Lemberg
Austria
Stanislaw Lem
Lem
Stanislav Lem
Stanislas Lem
Effort
Objectivity
Force
Consuming
Men
Doomed
Burn
Efforts
Forces
Failure
Fire
Renew
More quotes by Stanislaw Lem
I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
Stanislaw Lem
A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
Stanislaw Lem
Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.
Stanislaw Lem
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
Stanislaw Lem
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Stanislaw Lem
If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.
Stanislaw Lem
Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
Stanislaw Lem
Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?
Stanislaw Lem
No one reads if someone does read, he doesn't understand if he understands, he immediately forgets.
Stanislaw Lem
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.
Stanislaw Lem
Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.
Stanislaw Lem
Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!
Stanislaw Lem
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem
The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.
Stanislaw Lem
...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
Stanislaw Lem
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
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.
Stanislaw Lem
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
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...
Stanislaw Lem
I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
Stanislaw Lem