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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

Sri Aurobindo

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Body Determination Live Nature
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
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.
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Age Creativity Herself Human People
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People

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