Swami Vivekananda Quotes

No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.

Above all, India is the land of religion.

Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.

Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.

Man is the greatest being that ever can be.

Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.

Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

No effect of work can be eternal.

The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .

If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry.

My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

Everybody is changing.

This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.

It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.

March on, the Lord is our General.

God is pure, and the same to all.

May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.

Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

All progression is in the relative world.

All real progress must be slow.

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation.

The Absolute cannot be divided.

Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.

The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.

Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.

Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.

Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.

It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

All misery and pain come from attachment.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.