Quotes About Reality

How many fingers, Winston?' 'Four. I suppose there are four. I would see five if I could. I am trying to see five.' 'Which do you wish: to persuade me that you see five, or really to see them?' 'Really to see them.

Does the past exist concretely, in space? Is there somewhere or other a place, a world of solid objects, where the past is still happening?' 'No.' 'Then where does the past exist, if at all?

Power is power over human beings, above all over the mind. Power over matter, external reality as you would call it, is not important. We control matter because we control the mind, Reality is inside the skull.

Freedom is freedom to say that two plus two is four

La liberté, c'est la liberté de dire que deux et deux font quatre. Une fois que cela est accordé, le reste suit automatiquement.

Un hecho bien conocido puede resultar tan insoportable que sea dejado de lado y no se le permita formar parte de los procesos lógicos; o, por el contrario, puede formar parte de todos los cálculos y, a pesar de eso, no ser admitido jamás como un hecho, ni siquiera en la propia mente.

Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

There was truth and untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be. They are obliged to prevent their followers from starving to death in numbers large enough to be inconvenient, and they are obliged to remain at the same low level of military technique as their rivals; but once that minimum is achieved, they can twist reality into whatever shape

to a time when truth exists

Sei lento nell'apprendere, Winston» [...] «Ma come posso fare a meno...» piagnucolò «come posso fare a meno di vedere quello che ho davanti agli occhi? Due più due fa quattro». «A volte, Winston. A volte fa cinque, a volte tre. A volte fa cinque, quattro e tre contemporaneamente. Devi sforzarti di più. Non è facile diventare sani di mente».

Was the Party's hold upon the past less strong, he wondered, because a piece of evidence which existed no longer 'had once' existed?

Non possono entrare dentro di te' aveva detto lei, ma in realtà potevano entrarti dentro. 'Quello che ti accade qui è per sempre' aveva detto O'Brien, ed era la verità. C'erano cose, frutto di azioni compiute in prima persona, dalle quali non ci si riprendeva più.

The heresy or heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. 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?

JeÅ›li ktoÅ› pragnie rzÄ…dzi?, rzÄ…dzi? nieprzerwanie, musi umie? burzy? w poddanych poczucie rzeczywistoÅ›ci. Tajemnica sprawnych rzÄ…dów polega na Å'Ä…czeniu wiary we wÅ'asnÄ… nieomylno?? z umiejÄ™tnoÅ›ciÄ… wyciÄ…gania wniosków z wczeÅ›niej popeÅ'nianych bÅ'Ä™dów.

Forse, a ben pensarci, un pazzo non era che una minoranza formata da una sola persona.

Sometimes, indeed, you could put your finger on a definite lie. It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented aeroplanes. He remembered aeroplanes since his earliest childhood. But you could prove nothing. There was never any evidence. Just once in his whole life he had held in his hands unmistakable documentary proof of the falsification of an historical fact.

Ä°nsan?n istediÄŸi biçimde içinde yaÅŸamay? sürdürebileceÄŸi gizli bir dünya yaratabileceÄŸine inan?yordu.

Nale?enie do mniejszoÅ›ci, nawet jednoosobowej, nie czyni nikogo szaleÅ"cem. Istnieje prawda i istnieje faÅ'sz, lecz dopóki ktoÅ› upiera siÄ™ przy prawdzie, nawet wbrew caÅ'emu Å›wiatu, pozostaje normalny.

Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws to not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's center. With the feeling that he was speaking to O'brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.

El camarada Ogilvy, que nunca había existido en el presente, existía ahora en el pasado

Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.