More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
Explosions are not comfortable.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
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.
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.
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
