More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
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.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.
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?
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.
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.
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.
