Quotes About Mind

The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a "real" world where "real" things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.

That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.

in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body.

Le sorprendía que momentos de aguda crisis no debemos luchar contra un enemigo exterior sino contra nuestro propio cuerpo.

Wszystko dzieje si? w g?owie. A co dzieje si? w g?owach wszystkich, dzieje si? naprawd?.

At any rate that year of reading novels was the only real education, in the sense of book–learning, that I've ever had. It did certain things to my mind. It gave me an attitude, a kind of questioning attitude, which I probably wouldn't have had if I'd gone through life in a normal sensible way.

Ziveti pod vedrim nebom, nikada ne provodeci vise od sat ili dva u zatvorenom, otupljuje i zaslepljuje mozak kao sto ti jaka svetlost zaslepi oci. Ponasas se, i planiras i patis, ali i dalje ti je sve nekako daleko, kao da ti je zivot izasao iz fokusa, kao da postaje nerealan. Svet, spoljnji i unutrasnji, kao da polako bledi dok ti ne postane nesto poput vecega sna.

No ves que la finalidad de la neolengua es limitar el alcance del pensamiento, estrechar el radio de acción de la mente?

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?

As time goes on and the horrors pile up, the mind seems to secrete a sort of self-protecting ignorance which needs a harder and harder shock to pierce it, just as the body will become immunised to a drug and require bigger and bigger doses.

The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a 'real' world where 'real' things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save though out own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

It returned to-night, for just a little while-just as long as it takes to smoke two cigarettes. With smoke tickling his lungs, he abstracted himself from the mean and actual world. He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

Even a single taboo can have an all-round crippling effect upon the mind, because there is always the danger that any thought which is freely followed up may lead to the forbidden thought.

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.

He had lived on this filthy imitation of food till his own mind and body were compounded of inferior stuff. It was malnutrition and not any native vice that had destroyed his manhood.

Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

He had dragged out from the corners of his memory some more fragments of forgotten rhymes.

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».

Baš ništa ne posjedujemo osim par kubi?nih centimetara unutar vlastite lubanje.

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?

beyond that, only his own secret imaginings, founded on a dream. He

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. [..] The dull ache in his belly made consecutive thought impossible. And it is the same, he perceived, in all seemingly heroic or tragic situations.

He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. He realized, nevertheless, that it ought never to have occurred to him. 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.