Best P D Ouspensky Quotes
- The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time… Comparison
- The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know. Difficult
- Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not… Analysis
- Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the… Alter
- Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified. All
- I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering… Accustomed
- Effort plus motive equals result. Effort
- One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones. Acquire
- Art is the communication of ecstasy. Art
- It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning. Begins
- Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if… All
- Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he… All
- A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false. Contradicting
- a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something Given
- There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps… All
- There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all. All
- When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. Already Half
- There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it. Ferocious
- I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to… Action
- In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is… Biggest
- The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them. Actually Worship
- Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the… Attitude