“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.” MaySometimesTruthCertainUnreliableDecrepit Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.” MayLongIntuitionSymbolsDefinedTransfers Book:The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers Source: The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers
“What is the best way to look for one´s chief feature?" someone asked. Simply see yourself. I do not know how to explain it better. It is possible one may find something -- chief feature of the moment. It is imaginary personality; this is the chief feature for everybody."Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.” IfsKnowsWayFirstsWellsLooksMayMomentsQualityKnow HowKnowingPersonalityDependsBest WayChiefsFeaturesImaginary Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine. First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable “I” or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without end.” KnowsMenWayFirstsMayDifferentEndsMomentsCircumstancesEgoMachinesThirdsCeasePermanentTreatmentPeculiarUnchangeable Author:P.D. Ouspensky
“I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him.” ThinkingMenFeelsMayHas BeensFateImagineCompanionImagine ThatAccustomedCovering Book:A New Model of the Universe Source: A New Model of the Universe
