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.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!