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Inspirational Quotes by P D Ouspensky
- To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling;…
- When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as…
- Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.
- People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.
- The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.
- One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones.
- A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
- a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something
- There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.
- There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
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