Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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.

Men

People

Reading

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

Balance

Lying

Style

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today’s truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

Errors

Essence

Truth

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.

Art

Inspirational

Strong

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

Art

Inspirational

Truth

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

Essentials

Knows

Mind

And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

Century

Humans

Thinking

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

Night

Numbers

Sleep

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.

Children

Naked

Philosophy

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

Brave

Children

Philosopher

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Animal

Architecture

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Autumn

Balance

Beautiful

Beauty

Bitterness

Bliss

Blooming

Book

Born

Brave

Calluses

Century

Children

Choices

Comfortable

Court

Devil

Differences

Doubt

Dream

Dreamer

Dust

Emotional

Entropy

Envy

Erring

Errors

Essence

Essentials

Explosions

Eye

Fall

Fear

Fear Nothing

Finals

Finding Yourself

Flames

Flower

Freedom

Girl

Goal

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Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today’s truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

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.

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

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