Quote by Georges I. Gurdjieff on the Multiple ‘I’ of Man

„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.“

Georges I. GurdjieffGeorges I. Gurdjieff explains how the human 'I' fragments into many different and often conflicting personalities.
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Georges I. Gurdjieff was a Greek-Armenian esotericist, writer, choreographer, and composer.

Gurdjieff describes the concept of multiple selves and the fragmentation of the human 'I'.


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Georges I. Gurdjieff worked first in Russia and later in France. He became known as a teacher of the so-called Fourth Way and as the founder of a worldwide following. He also published writings and developed choreographic and musical works.

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