A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep. — P.D. Ouspensky Asleep Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it. — P.D. Ouspensky Character Copy Share Image
We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them. — P.D. Ouspensky Emotion Copy Share Image
Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams. — P.D. Ouspensky Dream Copy Share Image
To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not… — P.D. Ouspensky Consciousness Copy Share Image
There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way… — P.D. Ouspensky Action Copy Share Image
Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since… — P.D. Ouspensky Ancestor Copy Share Image
“they are generally based on some kind of weakness, because at the basis of negative emotions there generally lies a kind of… — P.D. Ouspensky Anger Copy Share Image
“Everything 'happens'. People can 'do' nothing. From the time we are born to the time we die things happen, happen, happen, and we think… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
What is the best way to look for one´s chief feature?" someone asked. Simply see yourself. I do not know how to… — P.D. Ouspensky Best way Copy Share Image
You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about oneself? A. No, it is more difficult. If you become… — P.D. Ouspensky Metaphysics Copy Share Image
Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe;… — P.D. Ouspensky Crime Copy Share Image
I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the… — P.D. Ouspensky Comparison Copy Share Image
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the… — P.D. Ouspensky Change Copy Share Image
Seek the path, do not seek attainment, seek for the path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not… — P.D. Ouspensky Country Copy Share Image
Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will… — P.D. Ouspensky Change Copy Share Image
“There is practically no negative emotion which you cannot enjoy, and that is the most difficult thing to realize. Really some people… — P.D. Ouspensky Negative emotions Copy Share Image
If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself,… — P.D. Ouspensky About yourself Copy Share Image
Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how… — P.D. Ouspensky Attitude Copy Share Image
Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what… — P.D. Ouspensky Analysis Copy Share Image
Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
