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Only Quotes by G I Gurdjieff
- Life is real only then, when "I am".
- Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for…
- Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the…
- If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and…
- Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to…
- One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything…
- In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for…
- To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know…
- Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What…
- Only super-efforts count.
- The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
- Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves…
- Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
- It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle