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They lie all the time, both to themselves and to others. Therefore nobody ever understands either himself or anyone else. Think - could there be such discord, such deep misunderstanding, and such hatred towards the views and opinions of others, if people were able to understand one another? But they cannot understand because they cannot help lying. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; and one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to be able to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.
G.I. Gurdjieff as quoted by P.D. Ouspensky in In Search of the Miraculous (1949)