{"author":"G.I. Gurdjieff","author_id":"G.I.+Gurdjieff","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"Man has no individual I. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small 'I's, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, 'I'. And each time his I is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.","author":"G.I. Gurdjieff","tags":["i","legion","man","plurality"],"id":5683,"author_id":"G.I.+Gurdjieff"},{"text":"Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.","author":"G.I. Gurdjieff","tags":["desire","prayer","wish"],"id":10714,"author_id":"G.I.+Gurdjieff"},{"text":"The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.","author":"G.I. Gurdjieff","tags":["art","consciousness","education","inspirational","know-thyself","philosophy","self-awareness","wholeness","wisdom"],"id":12957,"author_id":"G.I.+Gurdjieff"},{"text":"There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.","author":"G.I. Gurdjieff","tags":["pleasure"],"id":18836,"author_id":"G.I.+Gurdjieff"},{"text":"Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.","author":"G.I. Gurdjieff","tags":["friction","struggle"],"id":19302,"author_id":"G.I.+Gurdjieff"},{"text":"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.","author":"G.I. Gurdjieff","tags":["awakening","freedom","prison","self-knowledge","society","wake-up-call"],"id":19328,"author_id":"G.I.+Gurdjieff"},{"text":"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.","author":"G.I. Gurdjieff","tags":["self-awareness","self-discovery","self-knowledge"],"id":24191,"author_id":"G.I.+Gurdjieff"},{"text":"Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.","author":"G.I. Gurdjieff","tags":["self"],"id":45716,"author_id":"G.I.+Gurdjieff"},{"text":"I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.","author":"G.I. Gurdjieff","tags":["belief","experience"],"id":82807,"author_id":"G.I.+Gurdjieff"},{"text":"Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.","author":"G.I. Gurdjieff","tags":["hope"],"id":159784,"author_id":"G.I.+Gurdjieff"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}