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Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.