"And why do you think that foolishness is……" — Yevgeny Zamyatin
"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."
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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58 Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not…
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The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not…
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Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine;…
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What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the…
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Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth…
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O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to…
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The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
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Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.
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