George Orwell Quotes

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read.

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

Truth is always paradoxical.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained. And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.