“We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.” IfsWayFirstsPersonsLongSelfEffortImpossibleDevelopmentDemandTasksImportanceStriveIntensitySelf KnowledgeSelf DevelopmentSeriousnessTriflesOld Ways Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.” MenWayMy WaySith Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.” PeopleIfsWayWantFirstsStillsWarWantedTogetherCertainNumbersSufficientAnother WayStop War Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“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.” PeopleIfsWayTryingDifferentWould BeConnectedSeparationDependentDependenceInterconnectednessInterconnection Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good.” MenWayMayDoeDifferentEvilInterestSakeDifferent WaysConceptionSubjective Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
