107 Quotes by G.I. Gurdjieff

You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can’t escape.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

Begin with the possible; begin with one step.

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

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

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

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