242 Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

But, my dear friends, you must try to think a little now – it will help matters.

The speed of a tongue should always go some seconds behind the speed of thought, never the other way around.

It’s clear: if there is no good reason for enviousness, the denominator of the fraction of happiness is brought to zero and the fraction is transformed into a glorious infinity.

All their Immanuel Kants together couldn’t do it! It didn’t enter the heads of all their Kants to build a system of scientific ethics, that is, ethics based on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.

Dogma, static positions, consonance – all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Everyone has to go mad, it’s essential fir everyone to go mad – as soon as possible! It’s essential – I know.

Listen.” I tugged at my neighbor. “Just listen to me! You must-you must give me an answer: out there, where your finite universe ends! What is out there, beyond it?

And it’s also clear that what I felt yesterday, that stupid “dissolving in the universe”, if you take it to its limit, is death. Because that’s exactly what death is-the fullest possible dissolving of myself into the universe.