Yevgeny Zamyatin

It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“And what about the most merciful Christian God, slowly roasting in the fires of hell all those who would not submit? Was…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“No matter how limited their powers of reason might have been. still they must have understood that living like that was just…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Why? But why don't we have feathers? Or Wings? Nothing but the shoulder blades where wings would be attached? Why, because we…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I've come to read and hear many unlikely things about the times when people lived in freedom, i.e., the unorganized savage state.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“If they will not understand that we are bringing them a mathematically faultless happiness, our duty will be to force them to…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“If [modern artists] hadn’t lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“With his head thrust forward like a ram, Baryba pushed his way through to the front. For some reason this was necessary,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Individual consciousness is just sickness.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“They say there are flowers that bloom only once every hundred years. Why shouldn't there be some that bloom only once every…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin