The Best George Gurdjieff quotes

Love without knowledge is demonic. — G. I. Gurdjieff

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively. — G. I. Gurdjieff

From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him. — G. I. Gurdjieff

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

Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity. — G. I. Gurdjieff

Life is real only then, when ‘I am’. — G. I. Gurdjieff

That which is easy is bad for your inner life. — G. I. Gurdjieff

Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future. — G. I. Gurdjieff

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God. — G. I. Gurdjieff

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics. — G. I. Gurdjieff

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. — G. I. Gurdjieff

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it. — G. I. Gurdjieff

Never think of results, just do! — G. I. Gurdjieff

One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind. — G. I. Gurdjieff

To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much. — G. I. Gurdjieff

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws. — G. I. Gurdjieff

Personality in man is what is ‘not his own’ . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory. — G. I. Gurdjieff

What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much. — G. I. Gurdjieff

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. — G. I. Gurdjieff

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law–able compensation. — G. I. Gurdjieff

One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment–only you must first realize this. — G. I. Gurdjieff

By teaching others you will learn yourself. — G. I. Gurdjieff

Remember yourself always and everywhere. — G. I. Gurdjieff