“Knowledge, however, the real objective knowledge towards which man, as he asserts, is struggling, is possible only in the fourth state of consciousness…
”… Knowledge which is acquired in the ordinary state of consciousness is intermixed with dreams.”
Gurdjieff Quote, In Search of the Miraculous, The Teachings of Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky, Harcourt Inc., 1949, 1977, p. 145
And this observation by Ouspensky regarding Gurdjieff and 'objective truth', absolute truth:
"There were certain points to which G. invariably used to return in all his talks with us after the formal lectures … the difficulty of conveying “objective truths …
… knowledge of the All, was for him objective knowledge. ...
... The successive transmission of the ideas of objective knowledge has always been a part of the task of those possessing this knowledge."
In Search of the Miraculous, The Teachings of Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky, Harcourt Inc., 1949, 1977, p. 278 - 279