Quotes About Truth

And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre.

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version

La libertad es poder decir libremente que dos y dos son cuatro. Si se concede esto, todo lo demás vendrá por sus pasos contados.

Much better hang wrong fellow than no fellow.

Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Y si el pásado y el mundo exterior sólo existen en nuestra mente y, siendo la mente controlable, también puede controlarse el pasado y lo que llamamos realidad?

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already." ? George Orwell, 1984.

Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

I have not betrayed Julia.

Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness. You remembered huge events which had quite probably not happened, you remembered the details of incidents without being able to recapture their atmosphere, and there were long blank periods to which you could assign nothing. Everything had been different then.

For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.

Words are such feeble things.

But though it is unreal, it is not meaningless.

The organized lying practiced by totalitarian states is not, as is sometimes claimed, a temporary expedient of the same nature as military deception. It is something integral to totalitarianism, something that would still continue even if concentration camps and secret police forces had ceased to be necessary.

It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...

En tiempos de engaño universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un acto revolucionario".

Sanity was statistical.

En una época de engaño universal, decir la verdad es un acto revolucionario.»

But at any rate, one thing was certain. The conspiracy that he had dreamed of did exist, and he had reached the outer edges of it.

But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.

I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies—unless one counts journalists.