Truth Quote by Daniel J. Levitin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.”

“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”

“If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.”

“It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.”

“I wrote. Something. Yes.”