Humans Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

— Swami Vivekananda

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

— Swami Vivekananda

External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

— Swami Vivekananda

Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

— Swami Vivekananda

Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.

— Swami Vivekananda

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves…

— Swami Vivekananda

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he…

— Swami Vivekananda

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by…

— Swami Vivekananda

There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar…

— Swami Vivekananda

Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to…

— Swami Vivekananda

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

— Swami Vivekananda

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man…

— Swami Vivekananda

If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so.…

— Swami Vivekananda

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery?…

— 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

The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but…

— Swami Vivekananda

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon…

— Swami Vivekananda

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature… This conquering of the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone…

— Swami Vivekananda

As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong,…

— Swami Vivekananda

How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world…

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You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of…

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Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has…

— Swami Vivekananda

Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be…

— Swami Vivekananda

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our…

— Swami Vivekananda

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

— Swami Vivekananda

Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only…

— Swami Vivekananda

Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of…

— Swami Vivekananda

My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help?…

— Swami Vivekananda

We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We…

— Swami Vivekananda

Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that…

— Swami Vivekananda

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God,…

— Swami Vivekananda

The human will stands beyond all circumstances. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God Himself; a pure…

— Swami Vivekananda

What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own…

— Swami Vivekananda

Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is…

— Swami Vivekananda