The quotations of

Sri Aurobindo

Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist

1872–1950

18 quotes, most often on God, Motivation & Goals and Religion.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
- Change
- Nature
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
Bhakti
- God
- Humor
Others boast of their love for God. My boast is that I did not love God; it was He who loved me and sought me out and forced me to belong to Him.
Bhakti
- God
- Love
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
Jnana
- Inspiration
- Knowledge
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
- Freedom
There are two allied powers in man; knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.
Jnana
- Knowledge
- Wisdom
If the will is fixed on the purpose it sets itself to accomplish, then circumstances will suggest the right course; but the schemer finds himself always tripped up by the unexpected.
India’s Rebirth, 22 February 1908
- Motivation & Goals
Differences of credal belief are to the Indian mind nothing more than various ways of seeing the one Self and Godhead in all.
Indian Spirituality and Life (1919)
- Religion
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.
January, 1921
- Patriotism
It is the nature of human institutions to degenerate, to lose their vitality, and decay, and the first sign of decay is the loss of flexibility and oblivion of the essential spirit in which they were conceived.
India’s Rebirth, 22 September 1907
- Change
The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement, but fruits of the soul’s inner experience.
Indian Spirituality and Life (1919)
- Religion
- Truth & Lies
Evil cannot perish without the destruction of much that lives by the evil, and it is no less destruction even if we personally are saved the pain of a sensational act of violence.
“Kurukshetra” in Essays on the Gita (1995), p. 39
- Good & Evil
Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind.
The Renaissance in India (1920)
- Religion
None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.
Savitri, Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
- Motivation & Goals
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Sri Aurobindo: The Hour of God, and Other Writings (1970)
- God
- Laughter

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