Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Sanskrit language and the subjects in Sanskrit are both vital alike.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture.

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

Every nation has its own language as well as its own temperament.

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed.

Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.