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

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

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

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

“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.”

“J'ai lu les postmodernistes avec un certain intérêt avec même admiration. Mais quand je les lis, j'ai toujours cet horrible sentiment lancinant que quelque chose d'absolument essentiel est oublié. Plus on dit qu'une personne est un produit social, ou un confluent de forces ou fragmentée, ou marginalisée et plus on ouvre tout un nouveau monde d'excuses.”

“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”

“You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.”

“Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.”

“Giving is the only way of taking part”