Quotes by : P.D. Ouspensky

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

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that....

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.

Everything 'happens'. People can 'do' nothing. From the time we are born to the time we die things....

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....