Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.
- P.D. Ouspensky
More Quotes By P.D. Ouspensky
Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will,... A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime... Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at... In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect,... When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
Seek the Path, do not seek attainment, Seek for the Path within yourself. Do not expect to hear... It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.
Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom... When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are... Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and... The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.
Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.
The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
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