Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Metaphysics is a science.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

I think, therefore I am.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.