The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — 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
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.” — 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
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
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
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do… — 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
The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive… — 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
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic;… — 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
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
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in… — 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
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two… — 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
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter… — 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
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
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
