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I believe in no final solution...

I believe in no final solutions.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

I do not like the way people u...

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

I don't resist progress, but I...

I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

I never loved totalitarianism ...

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

It has no meaning, what do you...

It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

My pessimism (which, by the wa...

My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

People make filthy things with...

People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Practically all SF is trash....

Practically all SF is trash.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

The demand for absolute purity...

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

There is only one positive rol...

There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

You believe by doubting and yo...

You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

A man who for an entire week d...

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Genius is not so much a light ...

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

For some time there was a wide...

For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is...

Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

The whole plan hinged upon the...

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Giese was an unemotional man, ...

Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature theorizing are positive disadvantages in approaching a planet where-as has become clear-anything is possible... The fact is that in spite of his cautious nature the scrupulous Giese more than once jumped to premature conclusions. Even when on their guard, human beings inevitably theorize.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Not only does God play dice wi...

Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

It is not good for a man to be...

It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

The war of good and evil prese...

The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order...

Stanislav Lem 110 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....