Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.

A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity

It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

Once that Gauntlet is on, as the poster of Doctor Strange says, "the impossibilities are endless."

The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context, is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

There are two infinities: God and stupidity.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.