The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

The line expresses anxiety that societies can lose their shared commitment to verifiable reality—so that “truth” becomes whatever power, propaganda, or repetition can make seem plausible. Read in an Orwellian frame, it points to the political danger of systematic lying: once institutions and media normalize falsehoods, the public record itself becomes unstable, and future “history” may be built from manufactured narratives rather than evidence. The second sentence sharpens the warning: lies do not merely circulate in the present; they can be archived, taught, and remembered as fact if no countervailing standards of truth survive.