Sri Aurobindo Quotes

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

It's so empowering to know the truth and to really understand something.

It's important to be enlightened.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.