Quotes by Orwell, George

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are >>

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life >>

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is >>

Quotations about Asceticism

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. Wha >>

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes t >>

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and fo >>

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

Orwell, George