Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Atheism Quotations

Do not make gods in your own images.

The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

Do I believe? God only knows.