Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The first requisite for immortality is death.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec