Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

I believe in order that I may understand.

Believe that you may understand.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

I think people can believe in anything.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.