Sri Aurobindo Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: August 15, 1872 - December 5, 1950
Birthday: August 15
Death: December 5
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we are playing with baubles, with our Legislative Councils, our Simultaneous Examinations, our ingenious schemes for separating the judicial from the executive functions, - while we, I say, are finessing about trifles, the waters of the great deep are being stirred and that surging chaos of the primitive man over which our civilised societies are superimposed on a thin crust of convention, is being strangely and ominously agitated.
source: "New Lamps for Old". Nine articles by Sri Aurobindo in the "Indu Prakash" (a Bombay daily newspaper), December 4, 1893.
topic: Ambition, Men, Primitive Man, Civilised Society, Civilised
