Famous Quotes / George Gurdjieff
14 Quotations by George Gurdjieff
- 1. A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.
- 2. A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that ...
- 3. A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from ...
- 4. A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awak ...
- 5. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
- 6. Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
- 7. Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in wh ...
- 8. In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve ...
- 9. It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for ...
- 10. Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization o ...
- 11. Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as m ...
- 12. Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing him ...
- 13. Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing him ...
- 14. Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b ...