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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin We (1921)

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Science and art both project the world along certain coordinates. Differences in form are due only to differences in the coordinates.

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)

Realism that is not primitive, not realia but realiora, consists in displacement, distortion, curvature, non-objectivity.

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)

Every today is at the same time both a cradle and a shroud: a shroud for yesterday, a cradle for tomorrow.

Tomorrow (1919)

Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)

The sole means of ridding man of crime is to rid him of freedom.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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