"Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and……" — G I Gurdjieff
"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 is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself."
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G I Gurdjieff
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70 Quotes by G I Gurdjieff
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped.…
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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they…
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will…
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Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits…
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A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
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Life is real only then, when "I am".
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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is…
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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all…
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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