Quotes About Reality

And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.

Temel gerçekler görüÅŸ alanlar? d???ndayd?. Kar?ncalar gibiydiler; ancak küçük olaylar? görebiliyorlard?, büyüklerini görmekten yoksundular.

Physical facts could not be ignored. In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations - that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago. Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved.

the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. That is the fact that you have got to relearn, Winston. It

In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

He held up the fingers of his left hand, with the thumb concealed. - There are five fingers there. Do you see five fingers? - Yes.

people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people

It was like a single equation with two unknowns. It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.

IT'S JUST ROUND THE CORNER ALL THE TIME, AND WE ALL KNOW IT'S THERE. STOP FIRING THAT MACHINE-GUN! STOP CHASING WHATEVER YOU'RE CHASING! CALM DOWN, GET YOUR BREATH BACK, LET A BIT OF PEACE SEEP IN YOUR BONES. NO USE. WE DON'T DO IT. JUST KEEP ON WITH THE SAME BLOODY FOOLERIES.

Yapmak istediÄŸimiz ÅŸeylerin hep yap?lamayacak ÅŸeyler olduÄŸunu düÅŸünerek hayat?m?z? geçirmemiz tuhaf deÄŸil mi?

Wszystko dzieje si? w g?owie. A co dzieje si? w g?owach wszystkich, dzieje si? naprawd?.

Y si todos los demás aceptaban la mentira que impuso el partido, si todos los testimonios decían lo mismo, entonces la mentira pasaba a la Historia y se convertía en verdad.

Belki bir deli tek kiÅŸilik bir az?nl?kt?. Bir zamanlar, dünyan?n güneÅŸ çevresinde döndüÄŸüne inanmak bir delilik belirtisi say?l?yordu, bugün ise geçmiÅŸin deÄŸiÅŸtirilemez olduÄŸuna inanmak...

Ziveti pod vedrim nebom, nikada ne provodeci vise od sat ili dva u zatvorenom, otupljuje i zaslepljuje mozak kao sto ti jaka svetlost zaslepi oci. Ponasas se, i planiras i patis, ali i dalje ti je sve nekako daleko, kao da ti je zivot izasao iz fokusa, kao da postaje nerealan. Svet, spoljnji i unutrasnji, kao da polako bledi dok ti ne postane nesto poput vecega sna.

It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones. Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in The present, now existed in The past, and when once The act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentical- ly, and upon The same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?

I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts.

things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse – hunger, hardship and disappointment being, the unalterable law of life.

It is difficult when you pass that way, especially when you are peacefully recovering from sea-sickness with the plush cushions of a boat-train carriage under your bum, to believe that anything is really happening anywhere. Earthquakes in Japan, famines in China, revolutions in Mexico? Don't worry, the milk will be on the doorstep tomorrow morning, the New Statesman will come out on Friday.

The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a 'real' world where 'real' things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save though out own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

One thing, I thought as I drove down the hill, I'm finished with this notion of getting back into the past. What's the good of trying to revisit the scenes of your boyhood? They don't exist. Coming up for air! But there isn't any air. The dustbin that we're in reaches up to the stratosphere.

He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; to-day, to believe that the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic.

Some nationalists are not far from schizophrenia, living quite happily amid dreams of power and conquest which have no connexion with the physical world.