Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes About Today

• Todas las verdades son erróneas. Esta es la esencia misma del proceso dialéctico: las verdades de hoy se convierten en errores mañana; no hay un número final. Esta verdad (la única) es sólo para los fuertes. Las mentes débiles insisten en un universo finito, en un último número; necesitan, en palabras de Nietzsche, "las muletas de la certeza". Los débiles nerviosos carecen de la fuerza necesaria para incluirse en el silogismo dialéctico.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Strong

• It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dream, Orange, Dust

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

• The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.... But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Flames

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.9, Modern Library

• 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?".

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Fearless

• Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to an amalgam of reality and fantasy.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspiración, Arte, Realidad

• It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Love, Flower, Years

• 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

  Past, Today, Description

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2010). “We: Introduction by Will Self”, p.16, Random House

• We appeal, not to those who reject today in the name of a return to yesterday, not to those who are hopelessly deafened by today; we appeal to those who see the distant tomorrow -- and judge today in the name of tomorrow.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Names, Yesterday, Judging

• All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Truth, Errors, Essence

  "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg, in "A Soviet Heretic : Essays" by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1970), 1923.

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