The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.
Swami VivekanandaSomething cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.
Swami VivekanandaI am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Swami VivekanandaMan's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.
Swami Vivekananda