More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
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.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
Explosions are not comfortable.
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.
