"All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today’s truths become errors tomorrow." (Yevgeny Zamiatin, "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters", 1923)
"Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought." (Yevgeny Zamiatin, "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters", 1923)
"No revolution, no heresy is comfortable or easy. For it is a leap, it is a break in the smooth evolutionary curve, and a break is a wound, a pain. But the wound is necessary; most of mankind suffers from hereditary sleeping sickness, and victims of this sickness (entropy) must not be allowed to sleep, or it will be their final sleep, death." (Yevgeny Zamiatin, "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters", 1923)
"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)." (Yevgeny Zamiatin, "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters", 1923)
"Everything in human society is being continually perfected - and should be." (Yevgeny Zamiatin, "We", 1924)
"The cruelest thing is to make a person doubt his own reality." (Yevgeny Zamiatin, "We", 1924)
"The function of man’s highest faculty, his reason, consists precisely of the continuous limitation of infinity, the breaking up of infinity into convenient, easily digestible portions - differentials. This is precisely what lends my field, mathematics, its divine beauty." (Yevgeny Zamiatin, "We", 1924)
"The inevitable mark of truth is - its cruelty." (Yevgeny Zamiatin, "We", 1924)
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