"What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance……" — Sri Aurobindo
"What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees."
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Sri Aurobindo
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105 Quotes by Sri Aurobindo
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
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To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at…
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right…
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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