We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

- Leszek Kolakowski

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

- Leszek Kolakowski

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth readin…

- Leszek Kolakowski

For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it.

- Leszek Kolakowski

We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of…

- Leszek Kolakowski