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Human Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you…
- Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.
- If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot…
- Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.
- Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is…
- In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.
- Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.
- Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search,…
- No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of…
- The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.
- Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we…
- External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.
- We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are…
- According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.
- Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have…
- Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
- To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it…
- Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation…
- Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day…
- The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful…
- What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is…
- Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature,…
- Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the…
- My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help? Be holy--trust in…
- The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong