“This is exactly what people do not understand.”

— G. I. Gurdjieff

In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Context: The being of two people can differ from one another more than the being of a mineral and of an animal. This is exactly what people do not understand. And they do not understand that knowledge depends on being. Not only do they not understand this latter but they definitely do not wish to understand it.

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