Inspirational Quotes by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (Polish Aphorist, Poet)

Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–66,) born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, was a Polish aphorist and poet. Often referenced among the most celebrated writers of post-war Poland, he was noted for his skeptical philosophical aphorisms in Myśli nieuczesane (published in series from 1957; Unkempt Thoughts.)

Born in Lviv, now in Ukraine, Lec began publishing lyrical verse in Polish dailies and later contributed to satirical weeklies and to the Tryby magazine, of which he was a co-founder. Three of his early verse collections were Barwy (1933; ‘Colors,’) Zoo (1935,) and Satyry Patetyczne (1936; ‘Pathetic Satires.’)

A lyrical poet of distinction, Lec wrote contemplative verse; his profound literary culture liked him with fellow poets in Germany and Austria. He also translated Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht.

During his later, post-war period, Lec wrote more collections of verse, such as Notatnik polowy (1946; ‘A Field Notebook,’) Rękopis Jerozolimski (1950–52, ‘A Jerusalem Manuscript,’) and the satirical Fraszkobranie (1967; ‘Gathering of Trifles.’)

Lec is also well known for his many collections of skeptical philosophical-moral aphorisms, which he published, ranging from Spacer cynika (1946; ‘The Cynic’s Promenade’) to Myśli nieuczesane (1957; ‘Unkempt Thoughts;’ sequels 1964, 1966.)

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Life and Living

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Perspective

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Joy, Parties, Celebration, Change

The first requisite for immortality is death.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Immortality

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Patience

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Parties, Celebration, Change, Joy

He who limps is still walking.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Walking, Action

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don’t bite everybody.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Thoughts, Thinking, Thought

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Intellectuals, Intelligence

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Strength

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Faith, Beliefs, Belief

You will always find some Eskimos willing to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Advice

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Truth

When everything has to be right, something isn’t.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Perfection

The exit is usually where the entrance was.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The first condition of immortality is death.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Immortality

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Luck

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Progress

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Responsibility, Snow

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Faith

The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: God

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Silence

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Media

He who limps still walks.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Topics: Blessings

Inspirational Quotes by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (Polish Aphorist, Poet)

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