If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.
Swami VivekanandaDare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Swami VivekanandaThe "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.
Swami VivekanandaAll knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Swami VivekanandaMy name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.
Swami Vivekananda