P.D. Ouspensky

Quotes

• “I have become so accustomed to think “scientifically” that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else ...”
• “Everything 'happens'. People can 'do' nothing. From the time we are born to the time we die things happen, happen, happe...”
• “Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has t...”
• “There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappe...”
• “Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfo...”
• “If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develo...”
• “Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely un...”
• “Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.”