Buddhism Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

— Swami Vivekananda

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

— Swami Vivekananda

“Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian?…

— Swami Vivekananda

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Buddha gave up his throne and renounced his position, that was true renunciation; but there cannot be any question of renunciation in…

— Swami Vivekananda

For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna,…

— 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

“Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot…

— Swami Vivekananda

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great…

— Swami Vivekananda

Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity…

— Swami Vivekananda

Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else…

— Swami Vivekananda

Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the…

— Swami Vivekananda

“On the philosophic side the disciples of the Great Master dashed themselves against the eternal rocks of the Vedas and could not…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor is a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian.…

— Swami Vivekananda

The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying…

— Swami Vivekananda

From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low…

— Swami Vivekananda