Margaret Caroline Anderson

“Gurdjieff and Anderson”

“Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.”

“How can anyone be interested in war? — that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it — this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable? If you're involved in it, you die; if you read about it, you can't sleep.”

“Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim — for self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truths — when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.”

“It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for political conversation.”

“People with heavy physical vibrations rule the world.”