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Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii (known in English as Peter D. Ouspensky, Пётр Демья́нович Успе́нский; 5 March 1878 – 2 October 1947), was a Russian esotericist known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff, whom he met in Moscow in 1915. He was associated with the ideas and practices originating with Gurdjieff from then on. He shared the (Gurdjieff) "system" for 25 years in England and the United States, having separated from Gurdjieff in 1924 personally, for reasons he explains in the last chapter of his book In Search of the Miraculous.

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Effort plus motive equals result.

Effort, Motive, Plus, Result, Results

In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes.

Criminal, Criminals, Men, Sect, Tribe, Tribes

Art is the communication of ecstasy.

Art, Communication, Ecstasy

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.

Bigger, Problem, Relation, Understanding

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.

Asked, Change, Feature, Firsts, Knowing, Quality

There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.

Disappears, Dream, Possibility, Remember

Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.

Essence, Ideas, Learn, Merely, Thyself, World

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.

Effort, Efforts, Gain, People, Things, Two

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.

Begins, Knowing, Long, Man, Men

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Men, Quality, Overcoming, Obstacles, Develops

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

Difficult, Difficult Things, Know, Knows, Thing

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

Came, Dream, Dreams, First Impression, Interesting, World

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

Contradicting, Equally, Religion, Science

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

Awful, Keeps, Thing, Think, Thinking

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.

Customary, Lying, Numbers, People, Together

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

Change, Correspond, Effort, Ideas

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

Consciousness, Fully, Law, Laws, Liberation, Men

Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

Ancestors, Descendants, Enormous, Inheritance, Monkeys, People

If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.

Fire, Gives, Men, Struggle, Transform, Way

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

Eternally, Fire, Humanity, Love, World

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