Philosophy Quote by P.D. Ouspensky — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”

“Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emotions!”

“Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.”

“Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.”

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again”

“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.”

“There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.”

“We are not ourselves. They are us. Every breath, every thought, every heartbeat is shaped by the invisible architects who have ruled since the birth of the cosmos.”

“There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.”