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Language Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.
- Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.
- Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.
- The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we…
- Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal…
- Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural…
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