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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

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.

P.D. Ouspensky
Knowing, Personality, Quality

The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

P.D. Ouspensky
Difficult, Knows, Difficult Things
P. D. Ouspensky (2009). “Tertium Organum”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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

P.D. Ouspensky
Dream, Interesting, First Impression
"A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1931.

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.

P.D. Ouspensky
Truth, May, Sometimes
'A New Model of the Universe' (2nd ed., 1934) preface

The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.

P.D. Ouspensky
Simple, Sphinx, Faces
"A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1931.

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.

P.D. Ouspensky
Fate, Men, Thinking
P. D. Ouspensky (2012). “A New Model of the Universe”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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.

P.D. Ouspensky
Art, Philosophy, Analysis
"A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1931.

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