More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
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.
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.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
