Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Values

• If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Money, Men, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

• The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Crush, Expression, Mercy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1001, Manonmani Publishers

• Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Giving Up

• Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Discipline, Mind, Strengthening

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2551, Manonmani Publishers

• External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Practice, Helping, Purity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion”, p.49, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Ideas, Differences

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ignorance, Dark, Littles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.55, Manonmani Publishers

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