More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
Explosions are not comfortable.
Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.
