Swami Vivekananda — Philosophical Quotes

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Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Philosophical

“[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.”

Men Sweet Perfection

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Philosophical

“Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.”

Thinking Long Running

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Philosophical

“Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.”

Mean Jesus

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Philosophical

“Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.”

Names Space

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Philosophical

“From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.”

Men Memories Confused

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Philosophical

“Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret".”

Real Jesus Philosophy

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Philosophical

“When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it”

Age Body

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Philosophical

“We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.”

Men Ideas

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Philosophical

“This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It says, "Give up what is evil and give up what is good." What remains then? Behind good and evil stands something which is yours, the real you, beyond every evil, and beyond every good too, and it is that which is manifesting itself as good and bad. Know that first, and then and then alone you will be a true optimist, and not before; for then you will be able to control everything.”

Real Evil Giving Up

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Philosophical

“Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.”

Evil Ignorance Marriage

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Philosophical

“Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!”

Men Dream

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Philosophical

“Differentiation is in name and form only.”

Names Form

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