Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes & Sayings

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer? — Jeremy Bentham

For the rest of his life he would yield to circumstance and expectation, coming to call these strange weights duty. — Richard Flanagan

Barthes found the exit to this merry-go-round by reminding himself that "it is language which is assertive, not he." It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature by "add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, — Maggie Nelson

When you cease to blame your spous eand own the problem as yours, you are then empowered to make changes to solve your problem. — Henry Cloud

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers. — Aristotle.

The best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith — Ernest Becker