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Quotes from All and Everything: Views from the Real World — G. I. Gurdjieff

1860–1949 Armenia

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11 quotes

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

Socrates’ words, “Know thyself” remain for all those who seek true knowledge and being.

All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

Thus they have a good side as well as a bad side.

All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

By liberation is meant the liberation which is the aim of all schools, all religions, at all times.

All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

I have mentioned only these two as the most fundamental.

All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

Personally I would advise you to try freeing yourselves and to do so without unnecessary theorizing, by simple reasoning, active reasoning, within yourselves.

All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

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."

All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

So we have to deal with them indirectly in order to free ourselves from several at once.

All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

Death must come before rebirth. But what must die? False confidence in one’s own knowledge, self-love and egoism. Our egoism must be broken.

All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.

All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

The power of changing oneself lies not in the mind, but in the body and the feelings. Unfortunately, however, our body and our feelings are so constituted that they don’t care a jot about anything so long as they are happy.

All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: G. I. Gurdjieff (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.