Psychology Quotes by George Orwell

“As long you live it will be an unsolved riddle in your mind”

— George Orwell

“All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.”

— George Orwell

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me.”

— George Orwell

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

— George Orwell

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not”

— George Orwell

“We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.”

— George Orwell

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

— George Orwell

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what…

— George Orwell

“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”

— George Orwell

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

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

— George Orwell

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

“You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen…

— George Orwell

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

— George Orwell

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees…

— George Orwell

It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It…

— George Orwell

Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy,…

— George Orwell

“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals... all equal... the strong…

— George Orwell

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that…

— George Orwell

His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every…

— George Orwell

Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of…

— George Orwell

“Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked…

— George Orwell

“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

“She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated. In a way she realized that…

— George Orwell

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is…

— George Orwell

“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

“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

“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

“Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked…

— George Orwell

“George Orwell, on how to avoid thinking when you speak: You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting…

— George Orwell

“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

they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you…

— George Orwell

For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be…

— George Orwell

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case…

— George Orwell

“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

“The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a “real” world where “real” things happened. But…

— George Orwell

“When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he…

— George Orwell

“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party…

— George Orwell

“The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but…

— George Orwell