1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists".

Attachment comes only where we expect a return.

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.