Quotes by : P.D. Ouspensky

If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one....

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo

Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about oneself?A. No, it is more difficult.....

Suddenly I began to find a strange meaning in old fairy-tales; woods, rivers, mountains, became living....

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

I have become so accustomed to think “scientifically” that I am afraid even to imagine that there....

There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to....

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest....

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully....