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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
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“there is only one good: knowledge; and one evil: ignorance.”
― The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
― The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
“From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Anyone performing evil actions would be acting against their conscience and would therefore feel uncomfortable; and as we all strive for peace of mind it is not something we would do willingly. Evil, he thought, was done because of lack of wisdom and knowledge. From”
― The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
― The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’.”
― 1984
― 1984
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