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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
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.
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.
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.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
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.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
