The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear… — G. I. Gurdjieff Crowds Copy Share Image
One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any… — G. I. Gurdjieff Dies Copy Share Image
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by… — G. I. Gurdjieff Another way Copy Share Image
Listen, you have now found the conditions in which the desire of your heart can become the reality of your being. Stay… — G. I. Gurdjieff Acquire Copy Share Image
We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance… — G. I. Gurdjieff Demand Copy Share Image
The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of… — G. I. Gurdjieff Century Copy Share Image
One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody… — G. I. Gurdjieff Conception Copy Share Image
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and… — G. I. Gurdjieff Body Copy Share Image
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution… — G. I. Gurdjieff Consciousness Copy Share Image
The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves. — G. I. Gurdjieff Firsts Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment -… — G. I. Gurdjieff Dies Copy Share Image
Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects,… — G. I. Gurdjieff Exterior Copy Share Image
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go. — G. I. Gurdjieff Awakening Copy Share Image
Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does… — G. I. Gurdjieff Conscious Copy Share Image
A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and… — G. I. Gurdjieff Acquire Copy Share Image
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all. — G. I. Gurdjieff Bad habits Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he… — G. I. Gurdjieff Consciousness Copy Share Image
“LIBERATION LEADS TO LIBERATION. These are the first words of truth — not truth in quotation marks but truth in the real… — G. I. Gurdjieff Freedom Copy Share Image
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually… — G. I. Gurdjieff Dead people Copy Share Image
