Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

Passion makes every detail important.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.