Strange Life of Ivan Osokin Quotes

“There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.”
― P.D. Ouspensky, Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

“I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another”
― P.D. Ouspensky, Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

“a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something”
― P.D. Ouspensky, Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

“A man may not know what will happen as a result of other people’s actions or as the result of unknown causes, but he always knows all possible results of his own actions.”
― P.D. Ouspensky, Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

“Did I dream all that and what did it mean?” he says to himself. “And what I see now, is this too a dream?”
― P.D. Ouspensky, Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

“How terrible it is that quite without understanding or intention, when we are still too young to realize what the result may be, we can do things that affect our whole life and change our whole future.”
― P.D. Ouspensky, Strange Life of Ivan Osokin