Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume I - Part 5
Fragment ID: 10790
My experience shows me that human beings are 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.