1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

The road to salvation is through truth.

PRAYER is divine love alone. When this highest ideal of love is reached, philosophy is thrown away. Who will then care of it ? Freedom, salvation, nirvana- all are thrown away. Who cares to become free while in the enjoyment of divine love?

The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.

When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.