It is from direct experience and not from idea

My philosophy was formed first by the study of the Upanishads and the Gita; the Vedas came later. They were the basis of my first practice of Yoga; I tried to realize what I read in my spiritual experience and succeeded; in fact I was never satisfied till experience came and it was on this experience that later on I founded my philosophy, not on ideas by themselves. I owed nothing in my philosophy to intellectual abstractions, ratiocination or dialectics; when I have used these means it was simply to explain my philosophy and justify it to the intellect of others. The other source of my philosophy was the knowledge that flowed from above when I sat in meditation, especially from the plane of the Higher Mind when I reached that level. They (the ideas of the Higher Mind ) came down in a mighty flood which swelled into a sea of direct Knowledge always translating itself into experience, or they were intuitions starting from an experience and leading to other intuitions and a corresponding experience. This source was exceedingly catholic and many-sided and all sorts of ideas came in which might have belonged to conflicting philosophies but they were here reconciled in a large synthetic whole.
Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research -1983

Never was a philosopher

And philosophy! Let me tell you in confidence that I never, never, never was a philosopher.
On Himself (Sri Aurobindo) -374

God must be born ...

God must be born on earth and be as man
That man being human may grow even as God.
---Savitri, 537

On evolution and the Creator

*He is the Maker and the world he made,
He is the vision and he is the seer;
He is himself the actor and the act,
He is himself the knower and the known,
He is himself the dreamer and the dream.
...Savitri 61

*Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
...Thoughts and Aphorisms -30

*The animal is a living laboratory in which Nature has, it is said, worked out man. Man himself may well be a thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation she wills to work out the superman, the god.
...Life Divine, P-3
Sri Aurobindo wrote to a disciple—
*You speak as if the evolution were the sole creation; The creation or manifestation is very vast and contains many planes and worlds that existed before the evolution, all different in character and with kinds of beings.
...Letters on Yoga, P-385

Man belonging to the godheads of future.

*[Individual man] is not merely the noble, merchant, warrior, priest, scholar, artist, cultivator or artisan, not merely the religionist or the worldling or the politician. Nor can he be limited by his nationality; he is not merely the Englishman or Frenchman, the Japanese or the Indian; if by a part of himself he belongs to the nation, by another he exceeds it and belongs to humanity. And even there is a part in him the greatest, which is not limited by humanity; he belongs by it to God and to the world of all beings and to the godheads of the future.
[The Human Cycle-page 69]

Non-violence

*There is a truth in Ahimsa, there is a truth in destruction also. I do not teach that you should go on killing everybody everyday as a spiritual dharma. I say that destruction can be done when it is a part of the divine work commanded by the Divine. Non-violence is better than violence as a rule, and still sometimes violence may be the right thing. I consider dharma as relative: unity with the Divine and action from the Divine Will, the highest way. ..
[Letters on Yoga-page 491]

Rama and Avatarhood

*As for the Avatarhood , I accept Rama because he fills a place in the scheme –and seems to me to fill it rightly-and because when I read the Ramayana I feel a greater afflatus which I recognise and which makes of its story- mere faery-tale though it seems-a parable of a great critical transitional event that happened in the terrestrial evolution and gives to the main character’s personality and action a significance of the large typical cosmic kind which these actions would not have had if they had been done by another man in another scheme of events.

[Letters on Yoga-page 414]

living in inhabitable system

on earth
*A habitable planet in an inhabitable system

Problems of harmony

*For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony. They arise from the perception of an unsolved discord and the instinct of an undiscovered agreement or unity.