Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Stars Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back with them from Europe. Because in India you will find old altars made according to a certain geometrical plan, and certain things had to be done when the stars were in certain positions, therefore I think the Greeks gave the Hindus astrology, and the Hindus gave them astronomy.

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The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form

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Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.

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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

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Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

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When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

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Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.

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Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.

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We never change, we never die, and we are never born.

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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

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If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

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What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?

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God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.

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When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it

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True progress is slow but sure.

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All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.

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Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.

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A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

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We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

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There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.

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