Quotes from book
Solaris

Name: Solaris
Author: Stanisław Lem

Stanisław Lem Original title Solaris (Polish, 1961)

Solaris is a 1961 philosophical science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. Its central theme is the complete failure of human beings to understand an extraterrestrial intelligence.

“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.”

Stanisław Lem book Solaris

Source: Solaris (1961), Ch. 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 198
Context: 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.