Stanisław Lem - God Quotes

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"And do you believe in God?"
"I do."
"But you didn't think a robot would, right?"
"Right."

Stanisław Lem

Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us and thereby command our attention. It sometimes happens, and such is the case here, that a simplification touching upon the truth, but cheaply, is of no more value than a lie. Once again we are shown the demon and the angel, the beast and the god locked in Manichean embrace, and once again man has been pronounced, by himself, not culpable.

Stanisław Lem

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

Stanisław Lem

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.

Stanisław Lem