If I had my Life to live over again ...
This is the fascinating idea, which also engaged Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, that we live our lives over and over again in a kind of endlessly repeating film, and that nothing will change in this ceaseless whirligig, unless we ourselves change-deeply and fundamentally..
In his classic novel, set in the last years of Tsarist Russia, Ouspensky explores imaginatively one of the chief themes in his philosophical work: the idea of eternal recurrence.
Ouspensky.
Strange Life of Ivan Osokin is a gripping, cinematic story by the great Russian philosopher P.
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Then he meets a magician who gives him that chance.
He wishes to live his Life over again so he can avoid all his mistakes.
A failure at school, ruined financially, and rejected by the woman he loves, he finds himself at a dead end.
Well, what would you do? Here is the story of Ivan Osokin, a young man who has squandered every chance Life has given him.
If I had my Life to live over again ..
