G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes - Page 4

Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

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 a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.

Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Common aim is stronger than blood.

Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

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 those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.

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 the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.