Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. George Orwell

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals. George Orwell
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. Thomas Carlyle

A man perfects himself by work much more than by reading. Thomas Carlyle

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun. Thomas Carlyle

A man’s honest, earnest opinion is the most precious of all he possesses: let him communicate this, if he is to communicate anything. Thomas Carlyle
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Goethe

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent. Goethe

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. Goethe

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. Goethe

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a trifle. Goethe
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Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays. Aldous Huxley

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. Aldous Huxley
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. Joseph Addison

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. Joseph Addison

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Joseph Addison

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison

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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde

Punctuality is the thief of time. Oscar Wilde

A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. Oscar Wilde
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