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“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.”
― G. I. Gurdjief

“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.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“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.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“Life is real only then, when "I am".”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“We are living through a period bereft of a future. Waiting for that which is to come is no longer a matter of hope, but of anguish.”
― Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty

“The only future of a "generation" is to be the preceding one. On a route that leads inevitably to the cemetery.”
― The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”
― Karl Marx