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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

Sri Aurobindo

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
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
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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Knowledge Thinking True Yourself

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

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