Practice love first on animals; they are more sensitive.

—George Gurdjieff

love relationships sensitivity animals

About George Gurdjieff

Portrait of George Gurdjieff

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (c. 1866–1877 – 29 October 1949) was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and movements teacher.

More quotations from George Gurdjieff

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.

—George Gurdjieff

freedom society prison self-knowledge awakening wake-up-call

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.

—George Gurdjieff

freedom self-knowledge slavery self-governance

Time is Breath.

—George Gurdjieff

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

—George Gurdjieff

More quotations tagged with “animals”

I am sometimes asked, “Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?” I answer, “I am working at the roots.”

—George T. Angell

kindness time money animals cruelty

I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

—Mahatma Gandhi

humanity animals mercy protection

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

—Samuel Butler

If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.

cats animals politeness

Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it’s easy to forget they’re not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don’t say anything back.

—Stephenie Geist

emotions communication language animals pets

History

7 Dec 2013 Added
10 Nov 2022 Edited (details weren’t recorded yet)