1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure.

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.