Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
