"India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities."

-- Sri Aurobindo

#Ignorance Quotes #Light Quotes #Sri Lanka Quotes

“It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good...”
“There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.”
“How can you measure acting in inches?!?”
“In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.”

Source : 1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.
“The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.”
“Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.”
“She couldnâ€™t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.”
“Never bored on a hoverboard.”

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