No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Feeling a little blue in January is normal.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. . They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong
Had I just made a date with a tatted up bat wielding miscreant?
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down
Science is the topography of ignorance.
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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