336 Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

The soul in man is greater than his fate...

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.

All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?