Language
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"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
George Orwell
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
George Orwell
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
George Orwell
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four."
George Orwell
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
George Orwell
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears."
George Orwell
"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
George Orwell
"The essential act of war is destruction."
George Orwell
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously."
George Orwell
"Language is a tool. Its meaning is its use."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an open door."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Logic is the foundation of all philosophy."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"The world is all that is the case."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"A picture held us captive."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Only the mythology of science stands in the way of philosophy."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
Ludwig Wittgenstein