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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Explosions are not comfortable.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.
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.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
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 no final one; revolutions are infinite.
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.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
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.
