Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Ethics Quotes, Ethical Quotes

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

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Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

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We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

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This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

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Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached.

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Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

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Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It can be done; but you do not believe it. You pray to God and keep your powder dry all the time.

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Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

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Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.

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Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

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Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

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Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

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Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

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He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.

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I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

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Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

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The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

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Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

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Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!

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The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

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