More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
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.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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.
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.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
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.
