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Quotes & Thinkers from Poland

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"Under Hitler or Stalin a Góral could choose to produce oscypek however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him."

Janusz Korwin-Mikke· b. 1942View quote →

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🇵🇱Stanisław Lem

Literature

1921–2006

"Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from outside."

"De Saussur... develops the concept of semiology as the science which studies the functioning of signs in society, and treats linguistics as a branch of such a general science of signs."

"I take flying saucers extremely seriously; but I deplore pedantry and, like the ancient Toltecs, I find the serious things of life a cause for joy and pleasure rather than for pompous gloom."

"Designer drugs" are a word bag, just like "drugs", by the way. But after the word "drugs" is the word: "illegal". And after the "designer drugs" there is something much worse: lack of knowledge."

"With the same bricks one may erect... a palace or a prison.... The same letters are used in Holy Writ and heretical works."

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🇵🇱Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Politics

b. 1942

"Under Hitler or Stalin a Góral could choose to produce oscypek however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him."

"People spend unnecessarily high amounts of money on drugs or supplements that support immunity , meanwhile they do more harm to themselves by their way of life, for example by inadequate diet."

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🇵🇱Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Literature

1909–1966

"Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness."

"We can not predict who will develop the cancer. Cancer is a just disease – it affects everyone, regardless of whether we are poor or rich, where we live, how we live."

"In a sense the budget deficit can be considered as an artificial export surplus."

"With art, it is like with the languages that people use: each opens up other possibilities, other layers of sensitivity and expression."

"Whoso loves beauty is unable for that very reason to love deformity. One may not believe in our gods, but it is possible to love them..."

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🇵🇱Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

Philosophy

1890–1963

"By spreading logical culture, we prepare the foundation for a scientific world-view and by doing this we enable development."

"The Polish society is not composed solely of entrepreneurial and energetic young people. I can't image pensioners who get ZL600 or ZL800 a month getting even less than that. That'd be immoral."

"During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people were killed. Over the next 2 years, 3 Million."

"There's nothing more debauched than thinking."

"Hate is not a creative force. Love is a creative force."

"Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy—of wisdom you can acquire and make your own."

"Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it."

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🇵🇱Marek Żukow-Karczewski

Journalism

b. 1961

"Marek Żukow-Karczewski in the National Library of Poland"

"Today it is time for strong and courageous people because only they can achieve victory and rid the world of tyranny."

"I think that this stupid Polish society, this fucking bunch of imbeciles who voted for these whores cockroaches from PiS is some fucking misunderstanding!"

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🇵🇱Alice Miller (psychologist)

Psychology

1923–2010

"The mother can feel herself the center of attention, for her child's eyes follow her everywhere. A child cannot run away from her as her own mother once did."

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🇵🇱Krzysztof Kieślowski

Entertainment

1941–1996

"Kieślowski's "Three Colours" Trilogy at the Galilean Library"

"Be — fight — feel the pain — and love the wounds!"

"The ex-communist is the problem child of contemporary politics."

"If you do not want it to rain, always carry an umbrella."

"Anyone who took their Catholic faith seriously stood alongside the Jews in mutual, mortal conflict with Hitler."

"We will rule by ourselves. In two years or in six years. Patiently, substantially, at ease."

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🇵🇱Halina Poświatowska

"If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it."

"People like eccentrics and they will therefore leave me alone, saying that I am a "mad clown."

"… mathematicians progress only by doubt, through humble and constant attempts to impinge on the immense domain of the unknown."

Notable Quotes

"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 out what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed."

— Stanisław Lem, b. 1921View →

"We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender."

— Abraham Joshua Heschel, b. 1907View →

"Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation."

— Abraham Joshua Heschel, b. 1907View →

"The average intelligence quotient of Australian aborigines is more or less equal to a child with Down syndrome, and no one thinks to do abortions on Aborigines."

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke, b. 1942View →

"He who must be what he is, may curse his fate, but cannot change it; on the other hand, he who can transform himself has no one in the world but himself to blame for his failings, no one but himself to hold responsible for his dissatisfaction."

— Stanisław Lem, b. 1921View →

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