Yevgeny zamyatin biography of mahatma
Yevgeny Zamyatin: The Russian writer who inspired Orwell and ......
Yevgeny zamyatin biography of mahatma
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(1) Yevgeni Zamyatin, Tomorrow (1919)
Every today is at the same time a cradle and a shroud: a shroud for yesterday, a cradle for tomorrow.
Today is doomed to die - because yesterday died, and because tomorrow will be born. Such is the wise and cruel law. Cruel, because it condemns to eternal dissatisfaction those who already today see the distant peaks of tomorrow; wise, because eternal dissatisfaction is the only pledge of eternal movement forward, eternal creation.
Yevgeny zamyatin biography of mahatma gandhi
He who has found his ideal today is, like Lot's wife, already turned to a pillar of salt, has already sunk into the earth and does not move ahead. The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy.
Our symbol of faith is heresy: tomorrow is an inevitable heresy of today, which has turned into a pillar of salt, and to yesterday, which has scattered to dust. Today negates yesterday, but tomorrow is a negation of negati