Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.