top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Reality quotes
"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."
"Life can only be experienced."
"Infinite and finite are both mental constructs."
"Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real."
"To live a fantasy is to avoid a life."
"You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real."
"Life is simply a collective thought. Didn't you know we made it all up? Don't you know it can be different?"
Explore more quotes by George Orwell
"He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there."'How about my present?' she demanded, half wheedling, half menacing."Never mind that now. To work! Come here. Not a bad mouth. Come here. Come closer. Ah!"No. No use. Impossible. The will but not the way. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Try again. No. The booze, it must be. See Macbeth. One last try. No, no use. Not this evening, I'm afraid."All right, Dora, don't you worry. You'll get your two quid all right. We aren't paying by results."He made a clumsy gesture. 'Here, give us that bottle. That bottle off the dressing-table.'"Dora brought it. Ah, that's better. That at least doesn't fail."
"Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be."
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
bottom of page