Sri Aurobindo: Proto-Dadaist?

“All Nature seeks a harmony, life and matter in their own spheres as much as mind in the arrangement of its perceptions. The greater the apparent disorder of the materials offered, the stronger is the spur, and it drives towards a more subtle and puissant order than can normally be the result of a less difficult endeavour…

The accordance of active life with a material of form, in which the condition of activity itself seems to be inertia, is one problem of opposites that Nature has solved and seeks always to solve better with greater complexities…The accordance of conscios mind and conscious will with a form and a life in themselves not overly self-conscious…is another problem of opposites in which she has produced astonishing results and aims always at higher marvels…

…the upward impulse of man towards the accordance of yet higher opposites (is not only) rational in itself, but it is the only logical completion of a rule and an effort that seem to be a fundamental method of Nature and the very sense of her universal strivings.”

Sri Aurobindo Online