More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.
Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
