Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

A fallible being will fail somewhere.

I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Men create the gods in their own image.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

Humanity is the sin of God.

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Mistakes are made even by priests at the altar.

Government can try to make the world a little better, but can we alter the human condition? No. We can't make saints out of sinners. St. Augustine had something to say about that.

All Gods were immortal.

Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

We all make mistakes. I make them all the time.

Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.

I used to like Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology. All mythology!

I will always make mistakes. I am a human being.