Author of quotes: Evgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin



I have a very inconvenient habit of saying not what is beneficial at the moment, but what seems to me to be true.
Quote Explanation: From a letter to Joseph Stalin, 1931.
№ 466293   Added MegaMozg 28-04-2024 / 16:09
Rest and complacency are disastrous for the world. Only in the eternal dissatisfaction of a pledge of eternal movement forward, eternal celebration. The world is alive heretics. Our symbol of faith is heresy: tomorrow is certainly heresy for today, turned to a pillar of salt for yesterday, bit the dust. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy from the entropy of human thought. No revolution, no heresy - not comfortable and not easy. Because this is a leap, this is the gap, the wound, the pain. But the hurt need: most people have the hereditary disease but this sick disease (entropy) - can not give to sleep, otherwise the last sleep - death.
№ 133754   Added MegaMozg 09-01-2017 / 13:29
And bold philosophers - certainly the children.
№ 86233   Added MegaMozg 05-01-2017 / 15:33
True literature can exist only where it makes not the Executive, trustworthy officials, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, skeptics.
№ 26406   Added MegaMozg 02-01-2017 / 06:56