George Orwell Quotes

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 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 Paty, which is collective and immortal.

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are

The core tenant of what I teach is there are no facts inside the building. When we come up with a new idea, we tend to slide into our own reality distortion field to convince ourselves and others. And that's not healthy.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

The world is my representation

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.

What reality was ever made by realists?

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.