Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Sri AurobindoRead
Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of metaphysical thinking in shaping one's mentality and the need to retain such profound insights.
Sri Aurobindo highlights the value of metaphysical thinking as a vital aspect of a person's mental framework. He expresses hope that the individual in question maintains their exceptional ability for deep, abstract thought, reflecting the significance of such capabilities in understanding life and existence more profoundly.
Themes
MetaphysicsThinkingMentalityWisdomInsight
In practice
Example use cases
In a lecture on the importance of deep thinking and wisdom in education.
More from Sri Aurobindo
All quotes →To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Sri AurobindoRead
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
Sri AurobindoRead
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.
Sri AurobindoRead
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Sri AurobindoRead
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
Sri AurobindoRead
Similar quotes
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
William WordsworthRead
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
Siri HustvedtRead
It is not acceptable for one country to change the borders of another by force.
Antony BlinkenRead
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized man.
King Hussein IRead
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George SantayanaRead
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
George OrwellRead