“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”

— G. I. Gurdjieff

Aphorisms

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness." by G. I. Gurdjieff?

G. I. Gurdjieff 62

influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, compos… 1866–1949

Related quotes

“Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.”

G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer

All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)

“Blind faith is just another word for slavery.”

Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer

Source: The Burning Page (2016), Chapter 25 (p. 338)

“We may define "faith" as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith". We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups substitute different emotions.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Source: 1950s, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954), p. 215

“There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

The Stars in Their Courses (1974), p. 36
General sources

“Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Call to the Nation
Context: Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.