“All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The essential point of Nineteen Eighty-Four is just this, the danger of the ultimate and absolute power which mind can develop when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a “real” world where “real” things happened. But… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Old Porteous’s mind, I thought, probably stopped working at about the time of the Russo-Japanese war. And it’s a ghastly thing that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It struck me that perhaps a lot of the people you see walking about are dead. We say that a man's dead… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated. In a way she realized that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“George Orwell, on how to avoid thinking when you speak: You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O'Brien had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals... all equal... the strong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
