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Top 20 Arkady Strugatsky Quotes (2024 Update)

Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “Easier to believe than comprehend.”

1. “Easier to believe than comprehend.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “The problem is we don’t notice the years pass, he thought. Screw the years – we don’t notice things change. We know that things change, we’ve been told since childhood that things change, we’ve witnessed things change ourselves many a time, and yet we’re still utterly incapable of noticing the moment that change comes – or we search for change in all the wrong places.”

2. “The problem is we don’t notice the years pass, he thought. Screw the years – we don’t notice things change. We know that things change, we’ve been told since childhood that things change, we’ve witnessed things change ourselves many a time, and yet we’re still utterly incapable of noticing the moment that change comes – or we search for change in all the wrong places.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “How can I give up stalking when I have a family to feed? Get a job? I don’t want to work for you, your work makes me puke, do you understand? This is the way I figure it: if a man works with you, he is always working for one of you, he is a slave and nothing else. And I always wanted to be myself, on my own, so that I could spit at you all, at your boredom and despair.”

3. “How can I give up stalking when I have a family to feed? Get a job? I don’t want to work for you, your work makes me puke, do you understand? This is the way I figure it: if a man works with you, he is always working for one of you, he is a slave and nothing else. And I always wanted to be myself, on my own, so that I could spit at you all, at your boredom and despair.”

— Arkady Strugatsky

Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “Humanity as a whole is too stable a system, nothing upsets it.”

4. “Humanity as a whole is too stable a system, nothing upsets it.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “All these conversations had left a certain sediment in his soul, and he didn’t know what it was. It wasn’t dissolving with time, but instead kept accumulating and accumulating.”

5. “All these conversations had left a certain sediment in his soul, and he didn’t know what it was. It wasn’t dissolving with time, but instead kept accumulating and accumulating.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “That’s the Zone for you: come back with swag, a miracle; come back alive, success; come back with a patrol bullet in your ass, good luck; and everything else – that’s fate.”

6. “That’s the Zone for you: come back with swag, a miracle; come back alive, success; come back with a patrol bullet in your ass, good luck; and everything else – that’s fate.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain every phenomenon away on the basis of that system. An approach like that doesn’t require any knowledge. Just a few memorized formulas plus so-called intuition and so-called common sense.”

7. “The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain every phenomenon away on the basis of that system. An approach like that doesn’t require any knowledge. Just a few memorized formulas plus so-called intuition and so-called common sense.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “If I could imagine myself as God, I’d become him!”

8. “If I could imagine myself as God, I’d become him!”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “The lack of understanding produced a lack of belief. And the lack of belief meant death. Very, very dangerous. The Mentor had told him bluntly: the essential thing was to believe in the idea to the very end, unconditionally. To realize that not understanding anything was an absolutely indispensable condition of the Experiment.”

9. “The lack of understanding produced a lack of belief. And the lack of belief meant death. Very, very dangerous. The Mentor had told him bluntly: the essential thing was to believe in the idea to the very end, unconditionally. To realize that not understanding anything was an absolutely indispensable condition of the Experiment.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “I would put it this way. There are objects for which we have found uses. We use them, but almost certainly not the way the visitors use them. I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.”

10. “I would put it this way. There are objects for which we have found uses. We use them, but almost certainly not the way the visitors use them. I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “Take myths, for instance! As we know, fools are the overwhelming majority, which means that the witness to any interesting event has generally been a fool. Ergo: a myth is a description of a real event as perceived by a fool and refined by a poet. eh?”

11. “Take myths, for instance! As we know, fools are the overwhelming majority, which means that the witness to any interesting event has generally been a fool. Ergo: a myth is a description of a real event as perceived by a fool and refined by a poet. eh?”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world.”

12. “Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “Do we really need ourselves for anything?”

13. “Do we really need ourselves for anything?”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “You need money so you don’t have to think about money.”

14. “You need money so you don’t have to think about money.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “Until he had come up with a name, he was too pathetic to look at – a real idiot. But now that he had some label like graviconcentrate, he thought that he understood everything and life was a breeze.”

15. “Until he had come up with a name, he was too pathetic to look at – a real idiot. But now that he had some label like graviconcentrate, he thought that he understood everything and life was a breeze.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “Sometimes I ask myself, what the hell are we all running around for, anyway? To make money? But what the hell do we need money for if all we do is run around making it?”

16. “Sometimes I ask myself, what the hell are we all running around for, anyway? To make money? But what the hell do we need money for if all we do is run around making it?”

— Arkady Strugatsky

Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “Pigs can always find mud.”

17. “Pigs can always find mud.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “We know that things change, we’ve been told since childhood that things change, we’ve witnessed things change ourselves many a time, and yet we’re still utterly incapable of noticing the moment that change comes.”

18. “We know that things change, we’ve been told since childhood that things change, we’ve witnessed things change ourselves many a time, and yet we’re still utterly incapable of noticing the moment that change comes.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “Because the pale horse has been saddled, and the rider has put a foot in the stirrup.”

19. “Because the pale horse has been saddled, and the rider has put a foot in the stirrup.”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “You could, of course, start a campaign for the prevention of winter – gorge yourself on psychedelic mushrooms and act the shaman, beating drums and chanting spells – but it would make a lot more sense to sew fur coats and buy warm boots...”

20. “You could, of course, start a campaign for the prevention of winter – gorge yourself on psychedelic mushrooms and act the shaman, beating drums and chanting spells – but it would make a lot more sense to sew fur coats and buy warm boots...”

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Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “We can’t stop it, we can’t slow it down! No force in the world could contain this blight, he thought in horror. It’s not because we do bad work. And it’s not because they are more clever and cunning than we are. The world is just like that. Man is like that. If it wasn’t the Visit, it would have been something else. Pigs can always find mud.”

21. “We can’t stop it, we can’t slow it down! No force in the world could contain this blight, he thought in horror. It’s not because we do bad work. And it’s not because they are more clever and cunning than we are. The world is just like that. Man is like that. If it wasn’t the Visit, it would have been something else. Pigs can always find mud.”

— Arkady Strugatsky

Arkady Strugatsky Quote: “It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything.”

22. “It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything.”

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