Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 8014

My experience shows me that human beings are much less deliberate and responsible for their acts than the moralists, novelists and dramatists make them, and I look rather to see what forces drove them than what the man himself may have seemed by inference to have intended or purposed – our inferences are often wrong and even when they are right touch only the surface of the matter.

22-6-1934