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“The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.”

Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Russian author known for his dystopian novel 'We'. Born on February 1, 1884, in Taganrog, Russia, he passed away on March 10, 1937. more

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“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.”

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Book:We

Source: We

“The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.”

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Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“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.”

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Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“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?”

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Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.”

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Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.”

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Book:Notes and Fragments

Source: Notes and Fragments

“All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.”

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Book:Notes and Fragments

Source: Notes and Fragments

“Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.”

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Book:Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals

Source: Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals

“Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.”

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Book:Lectures on Logic

Source: Lectures on Logic

“Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.”

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Author:Immanuel Kant