Quotes About Philosophy

The Gita is a commentary on the Upanishads. The Upanishads are the Bible of India.

take Buddha. The central idea [is] sacrifice.

Let miseries come in millions of rivers and happiness in hundreds! I am no slave to misery! I am no slave to happiness!

To the Hindu, says Vivekananda, "Man is not travelling from error to truth, but climbing up from truth to truth, from truth that is lower to truth that is higher.

If there is something here that is not in the Vedas, that is your delusion. It does not exist.

You find in Krishna that non-attachment is the central idea.

you are all bound by the law of Karma, the Upanishads admit, but they declare the way out.

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realising — not in believing, but in being and becoming.

Krishna preached in the midst of the battlefield.

The sage is not sorry for those that are living nor for those that die" (note 4). [Krishna says:]

great difference between the priests and the Upanishads. The Upanishads say, renounce.

Even if you have knowledge, do not disturb the childlike faith of the ignorant. On the other hand, go down to their level and gradually bring them up (note 30). That is a very powerful idea, and it has become the ideal in India. That is why you can see a great philosopher going into a temple and worshipping images. It is not hypocrisy.

This is the sage who always works for work's sake without caring for the results.

If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organised religions. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development.

Kindness and love can buy you the whole world; lectures and books and philosophy all stand lower than these.

find that even this idea of duty undergoes change, and that the greatest

Swami Vivekananda LECTURES ON THE BHAGAVAD GITA

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy — by one, or more, or all of these — and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

Existence can never be non-existence, neither can non-existence ever become existence. ... Know, therefore, that that which pervades all this universe is without beginning or end. It is unchangeable. There is nothing in the universe that can change [the Changeless]. Though this body has its beginning and end, the dweller in the body is infinite and without end

Then the gods become no gods; death becomes no death; life becomes no life.

The mind of the man who receives gifts is acted on by the mind of the giver, so the receiver is likely to become degenerated. Receiving gifts is prone to destroy the independence of the mind, and make us slavish. Therefore, receive no gifts.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

King Diamond was always more satanic than Mercyful Fate. And I'm not saying anything bad about Mercyful Fate - I love that band but sometimes people forget that King Diamond is the satanic philosophy through and through.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.