"In all living nature (and perhaps also in……" — P D Ouspensky
"In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions."
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47 Quotes by P D Ouspensky
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The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very…
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You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own…
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To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a…
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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each…
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Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond…
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The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
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When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to…
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Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.
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Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten,…
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I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that…
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Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not…
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Seek the path, do not seek attainment, seek for the path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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