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. Yevgeny Zamyatin More Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin More Quotes From Yevgeny Zamyatin The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. Yevgeny Zamyatin ripening born world We comes from God, I from the Devil. Yevgeny Zamyatin devil The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. Yevgeny Zamyatin writing inspirational art Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith. Yevgeny Zamyatin infallibility Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs. Yevgeny Zamyatin inspirational philosophy art The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself. Yevgeny Zamyatin erring ancient men The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. Yevgeny Zamyatin description today past There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man. Yevgeny Zamyatin inspirational men art what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about Yevgeny Zamyatin inspired poet taste It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man. Yevgeny Zamyatin inspirational men art It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see? Yevgeny Zamyatin flames glasses thinking By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god. Yevgeny Zamyatin dark inspirational art The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers. Yevgeny Zamyatin spiritual inspirational art At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense. Yevgeny Zamyatin sleep numbers night The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. Yevgeny Zamyatin freedom men mean Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. Yevgeny Zamyatin
