If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Sanity is not statistical.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

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 Party, which is collective and immortal.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.