“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.” TodayNamesJudgingReturnTomorrowYesterdayAppealsRejects Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.” TruthTodayProcessNumbersTomorrowTruth IsEssenceErrorsFinals Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“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.” InspirationalArtRealityTodayLiteratureLostKnownFantasyObjectsRevolutionFamiliarFantasticPlanesFixedPlotLogicalFormulasProjectionUnfamiliarCoordinates Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“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.” InspirationalHumansArtTodayLiteratureSpeakTomorrowBitterFlamesRemedyHereticEntropyHuman Thought Book:We Source: We
“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?".” InspirationalNeedsArtTodayNextLiteratureUltimateFearlessHorizonPhilosophic Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.” InspirationalNeedsMindArtTodayLastsUniverseLiteratureStrongProcessNumbersTomorrowTruth IsWeakEssenceErrorsFinalsCertaintyFiniteCrutchesDialectics Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“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.” KnowsLoveShouldYearsSaidTodayFlowerThousandTenHundredThousand Years Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.” TodayPastDescriptionBrevityVoltage Book:We: Introduction by Will Self Source: We: Introduction by Will Self
“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.” KnowsWorldKindWholeDreamTodayUsedPerfectBrainClearSeriousNormalSickGreenRoundsIllnessWhole LifeHorribleMental IllnessDustMake SenseMechanismOrangeJuiceMerryOld DaysSpecksNormal ThingsMerry Go Round Book:We: New Edition Source: We: New Edition
