"An atheist can be charitable but not religious.……" — Swami Vivekananda

"An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable."

— Swami Vivekananda

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1,363 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda has 1,363 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman…
Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and…
If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship…
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot…
Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty -…
Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen…
Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians…
Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.
Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will…
Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with…
I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that…

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode… — Aristotle
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the… — Douglas Adams
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — John Adams
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism… — Joseph Addison
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can… — Jack Black
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a… — Tony Blair

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