a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something
P.D. OuspenskyTruths 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. OuspenskyI 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