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Psychology Quotes by George Orwell

39 Psychology quotes by George Orwell

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George Orwell points out that what we call reality lives inside our heads, not outside. He suggests that if we can steer our thoughts, we can steer the world around us. He also notes that many questions stay as puzzles that never fully resolve in the mind.

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

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

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

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

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

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

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

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

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

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

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If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true,…

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

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If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“The essential point of Nineteen Eighty-Four is just this, the danger of the ultimate and absolute power which mind can develop when…

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“It struck me that perhaps a lot of the people you see walking about are dead. We say that a man's dead…

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

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

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“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…

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

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“Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen.…

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

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“Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O'Brien had…

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

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

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

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

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

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“I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an…

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

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

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“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through…

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

“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…

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…

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to…

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…