Great Quotes of Yevgeny Zamyatin

Great Quotes of Yevgeny Zamyatin

 Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith. 

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.       

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.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.     

 To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.    

Name me the final number, the highest, the greatest. 
But that's absurd! If the number of numbers is infinite, how can there be a final number? Then how can you speak of a final revolution? There is no final one.Revolutions are infinite. 

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.       

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?" 

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. The new men entering life today are as naked and as fearless as children; and they, too, like children, like Shopenhauer, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, ask "Why?" and "What next?"       

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going.  

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter Even murder itself.  

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.   

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremelyprecious.    

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. 

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.          

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