Yevgeny Zamyatin
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"
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"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"
"العلم، إذا أيقن عصمته المطلقة، فهو إيمان"
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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"I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air."
"أنا أشبه بآلة تُدفع إلى دورات مفرطة: محاملها تتوهج، وفي غضون دقيقة سيبدأ المعدن المنصهر بالتقاطر، وسيتحول كل شيء إلى عدم. بسرعة: أحضر الماء البارد، يا منطق. أنا أصبه على نفسي بالدلاء، لكن المنطق يفوح على المحامل الساخنة ويتبدد بخارًا أبيض مراوغًا في الهواء."
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number."
"THOUGHTS: The user wants a translation of a short, philosophical English text into eloquent Fusha Arabic.
I need to capture the abstract and somewhat poetic nature of the original.
Original text: "Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number."
Key concepts:
- "Revolution": ثورة (Thawra)
- "everywhere": في كل مكان (fi kull makan)
- "in everything": في كل شيء (fi kull shay')
- "no final revolution": لا توجد ثورة أخيرة (la tujad thawra akhira) or لا ثورة نهائية (la thawra nihaiyya)
- "no final number": لا عدد نهائي (la 'adad nihai) or لا رقم أخير (la raqm akhir)
Let's try to make it flow well and sound profound.
Option 1 (more literal but still eloquent):
الثورة في كل مكان، في كل شيء. لا توجد ثورة أخيرة، ولا عدد أخير.
(This is good, but "عدد أخير" might sound a bit clunky for "final number" in this philosophical context. "رقم نهائي" or "عدد نهائي" might be better.)
Option 2 (refining "final number"):
الثورة في كل مكان، في كل شيء. لا توجد ثورة أخيرة، ولا رقم نهائي.
(This is better. "رقم نهائي" feels more appropriate for an abstract "final number" than "عدد أخير" which might imply a count of items.)
Option 3 (using "لا... ولا..." for emphasis and flow):
الثورة كامنة في كل مكان، في كل شيء. لا ثورة أخيرة، ولا رقم نهائي.
("كامنة" adds a nice touch of "inherent" or "latent" which fits the "everywhere, in everything" idea. "لا ثورة أخيرة" is more concise than "لا توجد ثورة أخيرة" and maintains the poetic rhythm.)
Let's consider the nuance of "final number." It implies an ultimate count, a limit, an end to possibilities or iterations. "رقم نهائي" captures this well.
Let's go with Option 3, it feels the most eloquent and captures the philosophical depth.
"الثورة كامنة في كل مكان، في كل شيء. لا ثورة أخيرة، ولا رقم نهائي."
This sounds strong and poetic.
- "كامنة" (latent, inherent) enhances "is everywhere, in everything."
- "لا ثورة أخيرة" (no final revolution) is concise and impactful.
- "ولا رقم نهائي" (no final number) perfectly conveys the idea of no ultimate limit or conclusion."
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite."
"وكيف يمكن أن تكون هناك ثورة أخيرة؟ لا توجد ثورة أخيرة. عدد الثورات لا متناهٍ."
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”)"
"لا تَدُبُّ الحياةُ في العالم إلا بفضلِ المنشقِّين: المسيحِ المُنْشَقِّ، وكوبرنيكوس المُنْشَقِّ، وتولستوي المُنْشَقِّ. إنَّ رمزَ إيمانِنا هو الانشقاق."
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little men, as soon as there is at least a partial change in the prevailing view concerning the role of the literary artist. (“Letter To Stalin”)"
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why' and 'What next'("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")"
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to the amalgam of reality and fantasy. ("The New Russian Prose")"
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth."
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"I walked alone through the twilit street. The wind was whirling, driving, carrying me like a slip of paper. Fragments of cast-iron sky flew and flew-they had another day, two days to hurtle through infinity… The unifs of passersby brushed against me, but I walked alone. I saw it clearly: everyone was saved, but there was no salvation for me. I did not want salvation …"(c)"
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"Literature is painting, architecture, and music."
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")"
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy."
Yevgeny Zamyatin
"Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")"
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