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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
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.
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.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
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.
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.
