If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.