Author of quotes: Sri Aurobindo

Imitation is a good training ship; however, never fly over him Admiral's flag.

When the massacre of the Asians is an atrocity; when the Europeans political necessity.

Nothing is lost, even when from a human point of view, the cause seems lost or hopeless. All is lost only when the soul abandons the effort.

If you have a great goal and the possibility of your limited, still go through, because only through action can increase your opportunities.

If keeping your limited human ego, you think you're superhuman, you're just a victim of his own pride, the plaything of his own force and the instrument of its own illusions.

An opinion is neither true nor false, but only useful in life or useless.

The mediaeval ascetics hated women and believed that God had created them for the temptation of monks. It would be nice to have a higher opinion of God and a woman.

When you hear opinions that you don't like it, explore it and find in it the truth.

Don't be proud of their wealth and do not seek the praise of man for the poverty and self-denial. Both have coarse or refined foods for selfishness.

A thought is an arrow shot in the direction of truth; it can hit the target, but will never cover the entire target. But the shooter too pleased with his success, to strive for something more.

Examine yourself without regret, then you will become more merciful and compassionate to others.

The love of solitude is a sign of predisposition to knowledge. The knowledge is achieved only when constant feeling of privacy does not leave us nor among the crowds, neither on the battlefield nor in the market turmoil.

Beware of the righteous, indignant too loud. Very soon you will see how they make or forgive those acts which are so vehemently denounced.

Selfishness is the only sin, meanness the only Vice, hatred the only crime. Everything else is easily drawn into good, but these stubbornly resisted the divine.