Life, Truth, Thought Flashcards
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
David Foster Wallace
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is an evolutionary act.
George Orwell
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield - American President 1831 - 1881
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schoppenhauer 1788 - 1860
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
The only good human being is a dead one.
George Orwell, Animal Farm
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell, 1984
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
George Orwell, 1984
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
George Orwell, 1984
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
George Orwell
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
George Orwell
