P. D. Ouspensky Short Quotes

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It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

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The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

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The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

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Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

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It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

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There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

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

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There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

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A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

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Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

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Knowledge must start from some foundation, something must be recognized as known, or we shall be obliged always to define one unknown by means of another.

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The axioms which Tertium Organum embraces cannot be formulated in our language. If we attempt to formulate them in spite of this, they will produce the impression of absurdities.

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Hints towards the solution of the problem of Eternity can be found in the various symbols and allegories of ancient religions and in some of the modern as well as ancient philosophies.

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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 a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

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The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.

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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

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