336 Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: ...

The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only, - those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or Arabian prophets for their founders.

Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.