The Danish philosopher and religious thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), regarded as fountainhead of twentieth-century secular and religious existentialism, maintained that average person, going about his or her daily routines automatically, is as incapable of sin as he or she is of repentance. Kierkegaard, who spent his life as a writer championing conscious subjectivity as sine qua non of authentic existence, and who wanted words "The Individual" inscribed on his tombstone, was wont to find, as was Gurdjieff, confirmation of his own views in words of Socrates: "Know thyself." Gurdjieff put it like this: ‘Individuality, a single and permanent I, consciousness, will, ability to do, a state of inner freedom, all these are qualities which ordinary man does not possess. To same category belongs idea of good and evil, very existence of which is connected with a permanent aim, with a permanent direction and a permanent center of gravity ... Permanent truth and permanent falsehood can exist only for a permanent man. If a man himself continually changes, then for him truth and falsehood will also continually change.’

Sometimes Gurdjieff would refer to his methods as "Fourth Way." The first three ways were way of fakir, way of monk, and way of yogi. The fakir struggles with physical body, devoting himself to mastering incredibly difficult physical exercises and postures {Which will be like Mudras and Mutras in impact of brain lobes. I have used this to help restore mentally ill.}. The way of monk represents way of faith, cultivation of religious feelings, and self-sacrifice. The yogi's approach is through knowledge and mind. Gurdjieff said of his Fourth Way that it combined work simultaneously on body, emotions, and mind, and that it could be followed by ordinary people in everyday life - that it required no retirement into desert. The Fourth Way did involve whole-hearted acceptance of certain conditions imposed by a teacher; it also involved supreme effort to devote oneself continuously to inner work, even though one's outward worldly roles might not change that much. In spite of his insistence that work without a teacher was impossible, Gurdjieff stressed each individual's responsibility:

The fourth way differs from other ways in that principal demand made upon a man is demand for understanding. A man must do nothing that he does not understand, except as an experiment under supervision and direction of his teacher. The more a man understands what he is doing, greater will be results of his efforts. This is a fundamental principle of fourth way. The results of work are in proportion to consciousness of work. No "faith" is required on fourth way; on contrary, faith of any kind is opposed to fourth way. On fourth way a man must satisfy himself of truth of what he is told. And until he is satisfied he must do nothing.

In 1988 pamphlet "An Introduction to Guitar Craft," Fripp, who has explicitly called himself a follower of Fourth Way, wrote, ‘In Guitar Craft there is nothing compulsory. One is not asked to violate cherished beliefs or accept any of ideas presented. Rather, a healthy skepticism is encouraged.’

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”- Pearl Buck

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told truth and they thought it was hell." - Harry S. Truman

"… archetypal Roman shouldered White Man's Burden, arduous but fabulously profitable task of governing those whom, despite all evidence to contrary, Romans judged incapable of governing themselves." (Lucy Hughes-Hallett from 'Cleopatra')

"[I often get] feeling that very concept of objective truth is fading out of world... I am willing to believe that history is for most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our age is abandonment of idea that history could be truthfully written. In past people deliberately lied, or they unconsciously coloured what they wrote, or they struggled after truth, well knowing that they must make many mistakes; but in each case they believed that 'the facts' existed and were more or less discoverable." – George Orwell from Looking Back on Spanish War

"... our mode of teaching principles of our profession [Masonry] is derived from Druids ... and our chief emblems originally came from Egypt ..." [William Hutchinson, Mason, The Spirit of Masonry, revised by George Oliver, New York, Bell Publishing, originally published in 1775, p. 195]

“Art is a dialogue we have always carried out with unknown. We have come to distinguish contours of unknown through unconscious, through religion and magic and we may soon begin to understand such totally modern emotions as feeling that we belong to future, that our civilization is sum of others.” – Andre Malraux who was Minister of Propaganda for Merovingian puppet Charles de Gaulle.

"The clergy converted simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute real Anti-Christ.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I see in near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for safety of my country. As a result of war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and money power of country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon prejudices of people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and Republic is destroyed.” - President Abraham Lincoln, 1865