It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Never forget the glory of human nature! We are the greatest god.. Christs and Buddhas are but waves in the boundless ocean… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to… — 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
The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The human will stands beyond all circumstances. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God Himself; a pure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The whole world has been asking for the same these thousands of years. There is, again, the universal dissatisfaction. We make an ideal but we have rushed only half the way after it when we make a newer one. We struggle hard to attain to some goal and then discover we do not want it. This dissatisfaction we are having… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he… — 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
