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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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 an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.
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.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
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.
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.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
