G. I. Gurdjieff

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

“A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it.”

“A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.”

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

“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.”

“Man lives in sleep, in sleep he is born and in sleep he dies.”

“In order to do, it is necessary to be.”

“Man has no individual I. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small 'I's, very often entirely unknown to one another.”

“The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness.”

“Remember yourself always and everywhere.”

“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”

“Wish is the most powerful thing in the world.”

“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 be sincere with yourself.”

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same.”

“To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. To know all it is necessary to know very little, but to know that very little, it is necessary to know pretty much.”

“Conscious suffering is the means to the redemption of the soul.”

“If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay her debt.”

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

“Patience is the mother of will.”

“Knowledge is one thing, understanding is another.”