Quotes About Mind

In theory it is still possible to be an orthodox religious believer without being intellectually crippled in the process.

The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness.

Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.

Libertatea este sclavie" "În realitate, nici n-o s? mai existe gândire, în sensul în care o înÈ›elegem noi acum. Ortodoxia înseamn? a nu gândi - a nu avea nevoie s? gândeÈ™ti. Ortodoxia înseamn? lipsa conÈ™tiinÈ›ei.

but any writer who adopts the totalitarian outlook, who finds excuses for persecution and the falsification of reality, thereby destroys himself as a writer. There is no way out of this. No tirades against 'individualism' and 'the ivory tower', no pious platitudes to the effect that 'true individuality is only attained through identification with the community', can get over the fact that a bought mind is a spoiled mind

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.

Vous ne possédez rien, en dehors des quelques centimètres cubes de votre crâne.

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?

Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed--no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

Su memoria [de Winston] fallaba mucho, es decir, no estaba lo suficientemente controlada.

Se volessi» aveva detto O'Brien, «potrei sollevarmi da questo pavimento come una bolla di sapone.» Winston sviluppò e risolse il senso di quest'affermazione: Se lui pensa di potersi sollevare in volo e contemporaneamente io penso di vederglielo fare, allora questa cosa accade. D'un tratto, come un rottame sommerso che emerge dall'acqua, gli affiorò alla mente questo pensiero: Ma non accade veramente, siamo noi che l'immaginiamo. È un'allucinazione.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed – no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. The

We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then? But

Tudo acontece na mente. O que quer que aconteça em todas as mentes, acontece de fato.

reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes; only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

They can't get inside you,' she had said. But they could get inside you. 'What happens to you here is for ever

Winston stopped writing, partly because he was suffering from cramp. He did not know what had made him pour out this stream of rubbish. But the curious thing was that while he was doing so a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind, to the

Only the disciplined mind can see reality, Winston. You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. we do not destroy the heretic because he resist us: so long as he resist us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul.