More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
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.
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.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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?
