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More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
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.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
Explosions are not comfortable.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
