Quotes About Truth

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?

I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters so long as you can score a neat debating point.

George Orwell

Freedom is freedom to say that two plus two is four

Dans des temps de tromperie généralisée, le seul fait de dire la vérité est un acte révolutionnaire.

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

Whoever writes about his childhood must beware of exaggeration and self-pity. I do not want to claim that I was a martyr or that Crossgates was a sort of Dotheboys Hall. But I should be falsifying my own memories if I did not record that they are largely memories of disgust.

The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs.

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.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already

Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

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

Sloboda je pravo da se ljudima govori ono što oni ne žele ?uti.

Za one koji žele upravljati nama, rat je mir, sloboda je robovanje, a neznanje je snaga.

to a time when truth exists

George Orwell is the best author -Jolie

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».

lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

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

He could not fight against the Party any longer. Besides, the Party was in the right. It must be so: how could the immortal, collective brain be mistaken?

Postoje ideje koje su toliko pogrešne, da samo najinteligentnije osobe mogu u njih vjerovati.

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?