Ideas Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

— Swami Vivekananda

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

— Swami Vivekananda

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.

— Swami Vivekananda

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

— Swami Vivekananda

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

— Swami Vivekananda

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

— Swami Vivekananda

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

— Swami Vivekananda

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

— Swami Vivekananda

It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it…

— Swami Vivekananda

Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and…

— Swami Vivekananda

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand…

— Swami Vivekananda

The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the…

— Swami Vivekananda

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

— Swami Vivekananda

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas…

— Swami Vivekananda

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and…

— Swami Vivekananda

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be…

— Swami Vivekananda

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of…

— Swami Vivekananda

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,…

— Swami Vivekananda

I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this…

— Swami Vivekananda

But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There…

— Swami Vivekananda

To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,…

— Swami Vivekananda

We can form no idea of the millions of pounds that are spent every year in the making of dress in the…

— Swami Vivekananda

We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become…

— Swami Vivekananda

No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look…

— Swami Vivekananda

What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one…

— Swami Vivekananda

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to…

— Swami Vivekananda

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

— Swami Vivekananda

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

— Swami Vivekananda

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

— Swami Vivekananda

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

— Swami Vivekananda

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this…

— Swami Vivekananda

Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World -…

— Swami Vivekananda