“In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and science. In his own field - though, of course, on a proportionately lesser scale - Wells may be likened to Dostoyevsky, who took the form of the cheap detective novel and infused it with brilliant psychological analysis.” InspirationalWellsMayArtPhilosophyFormValuesCoursesLiteratureSocialNovelFieldsAdventureElementsIntellectualRaisedBrilliantScalesPsychologicalAnalysisDetectivesAdoptingDostoyevsky Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.” InspirationalArtFormLiteraturePositionDiseaseComplexesObstaclesDogmaCatchingStaticConsonance 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
“To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.” InspirationalKindArtLiteratureNovelAdventureSpectrumDynamicsSynthesisPhilosophic Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one of an infinite number of numbers: the law of revolution is not a social law, but an immeasurably greater one. It is a cosmic, universal law - like the laws of the conservation of energy and of the dissipation of energy (entropy).” InspirationalArtLawLiteratureEnergySocialNumbersGreaterRevolutionUniversalInfiniteFinalsCosmicConservationEntropyUniversal LawsSocial RevolutionDissipationEnergy Conservation 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
“Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.” PeopleMenInspirationalWellsChildrenArtAsksLiteratureWiseGeniusPhilosopherFoolishExcellentCivilizedDogmaApartmentToilets 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
“Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.” InspirationalFirstsLooksArtLyingLiteratureSpeakTruth IsCarefulShouldersAccustomedPresent Day Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.” MenInspirationalYearsArtPhilosophyProblemMovingLiteratureSocialMountainIdealsDivinityRemoveLive ByFerventSocial ProblemsMove MountainsChekhov Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.” PeopleThinkingKnowsInspirationalWritingArtMatterDoneHateOrderLiteratureTechnologySubjectsFieldsFineIndustryNeededProveMachinesOppositesSightComplexesLinkedQualifiedSpecialistsSynthesisCraftsmanshipDilettantes Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.” InspirationalArtLiteratureFieldsPaintingTheaterComplexesProtectionMathematicalPenetrateMicrobesIronclads Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.” InspirationalArtTwoLiteratureStruggleMethodArtisticDiscussionLatterRealismRomanticism Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin