107 Quotes by G.I. Gurdjieff

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.

Truth is that from which conscience can be at peace.

Until you stop being governed by your emotions you cannot be impartial.

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 only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.

To love work for work’s sake and not for its gain.

Prolonged instruction, prolonged training, is necessary to be able to turn the cheek. And if this training is mechanical – it is again worth nothing because in this case it means that a man will turn his cheek because he cannot do anything else.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.