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Their Spiritual significance
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Aristocracy
Incapable of baseness and pettiness, it asserts itself with dignity and authority.
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Dahlia Spp. Cav. (Asteraceae [= Compositae])
Dahlia
Very large (over 16 cm) fully double flowers with somewhat narrow, pointed and variously twisted ray florets; in white and shades of red, pink, lavender, purple, orange and yellow, also bicoloured; borne singly.
There is but one royalty, one aristocracy: the royalty and aristocracy of intelligence.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 3. - 1962
Only a few, the rare aristocrats of the earth, can really and truly think. That is now the true aristocracy, not the aristocracy of the body and birth, not the aristocracy of vital superiority, wealth, pride and luxury, not the aristocracy of higher emotions, courage, energy, successful political instinct and the habit of mastery and rule, - though these latter cannot be neglected, - but the aristocracy of knowledge, undisturbed insight and intellectual ability.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. The Compete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 1, P.436.