Men Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.

— Sri Aurobindo

Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.

— Sri Aurobindo

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

— Sri Aurobindo

Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and…

— Sri Aurobindo

Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is…

— Sri Aurobindo

The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead…

— Sri Aurobindo

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence…

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

— Sri Aurobindo

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is…

— Sri Aurobindo

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

— Sri Aurobindo

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged…

— Sri Aurobindo

What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen…

— Sri Aurobindo

If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine…

— Sri Aurobindo

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,…

— Sri Aurobindo

Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the…

— Sri Aurobindo

Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements…

— Sri Aurobindo

The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same…

— Sri Aurobindo

For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or…

— Sri Aurobindo

To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we…

— Sri Aurobindo

There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as…

— Sri Aurobindo

The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real…

— Sri Aurobindo

Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that…

— Sri Aurobindo

Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim…

— Sri Aurobindo

I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their…

— Sri Aurobindo

It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of…

— Sri Aurobindo

We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with…

— Sri Aurobindo

The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its…

— Sri Aurobindo

Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even…

— Sri Aurobindo

The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a…

— Sri Aurobindo

Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb…

— Sri Aurobindo