More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
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.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing 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.
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.
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.
