1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music - Sachchidânanda, soham, soham - Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, I am He, I am He.

The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.

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

There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee."

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.