More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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.
