If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.
George OrwellRead
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Reality is subjective and shaped by individual perception.
In this quote, George Orwell suggests that our understanding of reality is not an objective truth, but rather a construction of the human mind. This challenges the notion of an absolute reality and invites us to consider how personal experiences, beliefs, and perceptions shape what we define as 'real'.
Themes
RealityPerceptionMindSubjectiveTruth
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a philosophical debate about the nature of reality.
More from George Orwell
All quotes βThe 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.
George OrwellRead
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.
George OrwellRead
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George OrwellRead
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George OrwellRead
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
George OrwellRead
Similar quotes
In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Desiderius ErasmusRead
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.
Hannah ArendtRead
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.
Khalil GibranRead
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
C. S. LewisRead
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
Jean-Jacques RousseauRead
You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!
J. R. R. TolkienRead