47 Quotes by P.D. Ouspensky

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

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

To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself – I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

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.

I felt that on a basis of a “search for the miraculous” it would be possible to unite together a very large number of people who were no longer able to swallow the customary forms of lying and living in lying.

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

Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.

Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, without knowledge, people do not know what they can get rid of or what they can gain.