More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
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.
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.
