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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
— P.D. Ouspensky
We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
— P.D. Ouspensky
At one moment when I say 'I', one part of me is speaking,and at another moment when I say 'I', it is quite another 'I' speaking.
— P.D. Ouspensky
Is it the boiler room? Is this the part where we both fall asleep and Freddy comes after us? 'Cause I could so kick his ass.
— Julie Halpern
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.
— P.D. Ouspensky
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
— P.D. Ouspensky
We are but a bunch of neurons.
— Abhijit Naskar
Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
— T.C. Boyle
If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.
— P.D. Ouspensky
There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.
— P.D. Ouspensky
If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.
— P.D. Ouspensky
Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
— P.D. Ouspensky
Death is like an old whore in a bar
I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her — Ernest Hemingway,
I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her — Ernest Hemingway,
When you serve a beer-cock an ear.
— John Shirley
A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.
— P.D. Ouspensky
I always saw myself wanting to do something deemed successful and good at the same time.
— Howard Schultz
Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.
— Ofra Strauss
There are times when an old rule should be abandoned or a current rule should not be applied.
— Sue Grafton
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
— P.D. Ouspensky
It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.
— P.D. Ouspensky
Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.
— P.D. Ouspensky
The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
— P.D. Ouspensky
In the land of sour grapes, the half-eaten apple is the queen
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Art is the communication of ecstasy.
— P.D. Ouspensky
Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth
the cowards! — Joaquin Miller
the cowards! — Joaquin Miller
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.
— P.D. Ouspensky
Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite.
— Stephen Charnock
The best writers were philosophers who wrapped their commentary about life in laughter.
— Dick Van Dyke
I've learned a hundred secrets,
a thousand mysteries
and a million more.
But of all the lessons I learned,
the greatest is love. — Frederick Espiritu
a thousand mysteries
and a million more.
But of all the lessons I learned,
the greatest is love. — Frederick Espiritu
One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones.
— P.D. Ouspensky
Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.
— Paul Shepard
Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.
— P.D. Ouspensky
Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.
— P.D. Ouspensky