Quotes About Reality

then the lie passed into history and became truth.

La vida de un animal es solo miseria y esclavitud; esta es la pura verdad.

Normalno?? nie jest kwesti? statystyki.

En nuestra sociedad, aquellos que saben mejor lo que está ocurriendo son a la vez los que están más lejos de ver al mundo como realmente es. En general, a mayor comprensión, mayor autoengaño: los más inteligentes son en esto los menos cuerdos.

Wszystko istnieje wy??cznie dzi?ki naszej ?wiadomo?ci.

Ver lo que tenemos delante de nuestras narices requiere un esfuerzo constante

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind

Ä°nsan, kendi belleÄŸi d???nda hiçbir kay?t olmay?nca en belirgin gerçeÄŸi bile nas?l kan?tlayabilirdi ki?

La cordura no cuenta en las estadísticas.

At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today to believe that the past is unalterable.

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little.

La libertad consiste en decir que dos y dos son cuatro.

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

He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. 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 truth.

O'Brien alzó la mano izquierda, con el dorso hacia Winston, el pulgar oculto y los cuatro dedos extendidos. —¿Cuántos dedos hay aquí, Winston? —Cuatro. —Y si el Partido dijera que no son cuatro sino cinco... ¿cuántos habría? —Cuatro. La palabra concluyó en una boqueada de dolor.

Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an airplane they had to make four.

Todo el secreto estaba en pasarse de unos a otros la doctrina secreta de que dos y dos son cuatro.

Anybody who thinks factory jobs were good jobs needs to go visit somebody on a line," she said. "Most people wouldn't survive in a factory. Mitt Romney would die in a week.

Truth is always simple.

Difficult to believe, yet absolutely true.

La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n'est que le prestige d'un moment; l'œuil du corps n'est pas toujours celui de l'âme. (The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes, she continued, is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.) [Le beau Laurence]

La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie. (Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.)

Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.