George Orwell

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already read more

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, read more

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Insanity is my only means of relaxation

Insanity is my only means of relaxation

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one read more

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it