Swami Vivekananda — Philosophical Quotes

376 quotes · Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

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Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Philosophical

“Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!”

Book Way May

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

Philosophical

“The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.”

Mean Couple Tree

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Philosophical

“Perfection can never be attained by work.”

Perfection

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Philosophical

“First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.”

Want Real

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Philosophical

“Not one is constant, but everything is changing.”

Change Constant

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Philosophical

“How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.”

Want Health

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Philosophical

“Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.”

Mystery

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Philosophical

“The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.”

Hands Motivational Salvation

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Philosophical

“Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.”

Law Differences Religion

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Philosophical

“The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals”

Thinking Men Animal

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Philosophical

“Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.”

Men Evil Sides

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Philosophical

“Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance.”

Blood Ocean Distance

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