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Biography - George Orwell:

George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) is an English novelist, essayist and journalist. He was born in Motihari, British India.
Born: 1903 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: India
India

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.


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Quote source: Politics and the English Language

Internet archive - Orwell - Politics And The English Language (en) 




Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Wenn das Denken die Sprache korrumpiert, korrumpiert die Sprache auch das Denken.

French
Si la pensée corrompt le langage, le langage peut aussi corrompre la pensée.




See also 

See also...



Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.

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 spurting out ink.




Quotes for: thought


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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.





People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.





Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.





Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.











Quotes for: Language


Quotes

Quotes for: Language


The language of truth is simple.





Language is a source of misunderstanding.





Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





Language is the house of the truth of Being.





Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.





Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.











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George Orwell also said...


To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.





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





The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.





Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.





If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.





All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.












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