Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Who was Stanisław Jerzy Lec?

Stanisław Jerzy Lec was an important Polish poet and aphorist. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of post-WW2 Poland, he was one of the most influential aphorists on the 20th century, known for lyrical poetry and sceptical philosophical-moral aphorisms, often with a political subtext.

Famous Quotes:

• Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
• No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
• People find life entirely too time-consuming.
• He who limps is still walking.
• Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
• Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
• Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
• When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
• The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
• The first requisite for immortality is death.