Quotes by P.D. Ouspensky

P.D. Ouspensky

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

Given

Men

Use

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

Contradicting

Religion

Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing

Limits

Too Much

Trying

Can one alter one´s chief feature?” asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.

Firsts

Knowing

Quality

Everything we do consciously remains for us.

Remains

Thinking

I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The ‘miraculous’ was a penetration into this unknown reality.

Labyrinth

Long

Reality

I have become so accustomed to think “scientifically” that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him.

Fate

Men

Thinking

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

Mean

Want

Way

I’ve found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

Believe

Might

People

If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no ‘friction,’ no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.

Fire

Men

Struggle

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Contradicting

Country

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Ego

Essence

Essentials

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Fate

Feelings

Fire

Firsts

Given

Helping

Humanity

Ideas

Inheritance

Knowing

Labyrinth

Law

Life

Limits

Long

Looks

Love

May

Mean

Men

Might

Mistake

Monkeys

Negative

Numbers

Opinion

Overcoming

Path

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People

Personality

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Quotes by P.D. Ouspensky

P.D. Ouspensky

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing

Can one alter one´s chief feature?” asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.

Everything we do consciously remains for us.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

I’ve found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

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