Alex > Alex's Quotes

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children. So you're right, it's a child's question, just as it should be.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale