George Gurdjieff Quotes

#1. Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

George Gurdjieff

#2. I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what I wanted to do.

Dane Cook

#3. A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.

George Gurdjieff

#4. A fine remedy for our anxieties over our low status in society may be to travel - whether literally or figuratively, by viewing works of art - through the gigantic spaces of the world.

Alain De Botton

#5. I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

George Gurdjieff

#7. Even though my work life is very intense, I make a conscious effort to be healthy.

Jessica Scorpio

#8. It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

George Gurdjieff

#10. The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture.

Pope Benedict XVI

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

George Gurdjieff

#12. While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

James Nesbitt

#13. You'll fix me, because we're parabatai. We're forever.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

T. S. Eliot

#15. In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

George Gurdjieff

#16. Lies are essential to humanity.

Marcel Proust

#17. Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

George Gurdjieff