Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Causes Quotes, Certain Quotes

When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.

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Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

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How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

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Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

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When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will

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

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Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue." He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is all I have to preach. Doctrines have been expounded enough. There are books by the million. Oh, for an ounce of practice!

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Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

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Man is greater than the gods.

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Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

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He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.

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Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

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That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the Hindu paintings? All sorts of grotesque and unnatural figures. What do you see in a Hindu temple? A Chaturbhanga Narayana or some such thing. But take into consideration any Italian picture or Grecian statue-what a study of nature you find in them! A gentleman for twenty years sat burning a candle in his hand, in order to paint a lady carrying a candle in her hand.

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All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".

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Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.

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God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.

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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another; and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. Nay more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be.

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"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

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You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds

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Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.

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