I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

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.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.