"The world is kept alive only by heretics:……" — Yevgeny Zamyatin
"The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”)"
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58 Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin has 58 quotes on this site.
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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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And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as…
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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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