“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.”
“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie.”
“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”
“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens to you. Other people? They’re only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”
“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
