1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between minds than between bodies. One fundamental doctrine of Hinduism is that all men are different, there being unity in variety. Even for a drunkard, there are some Mantras-even for a man going to a prostitute!

Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.