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. - Aurobindo Ghosh

When we have passed beyond humanity, then we shall be the Man. The Animal was the helper; the Animal is the bar.

One thing seems at any rate certain, that the spiritual motive will be in the future of India, as in her past, the real originative and dominating strain. By spirituality we do not mean a remote metaphysical mind or the tendency to dream rather than to act. That was not the great India of old in her splendid days of vigour, — whatever certain European critics or interpreters of her culture may say, — and it will not be the India of the future. 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...

God always keeps for himself a chosen country in which the higher knowledge is through all chances and dangers, by the few or many, continually preserved, and for the present, that country is India.