Most Men Are Essentially Dead

A Great Nation Assailed By War Has Not Only Its Frontiers To Protect: It Must Also Protect Its Good Sense. It Must Protect Itself From The Hallucinations, Injustices, And Follies Which The Plague Lets Loose.

The True Vedantic Spirit Does Not Start Out With A System Of Preconceived Ideas. It Possesses Absolute Liberty And Unrivalled Courage Among Religions With Regard To The Facts To Be Observed And The Diverse Hypotheses It Has Laid Down For Their Coordination. Never Having Been Hampered By A Priestly Order, Each Man Has Been Entirely Free To Search Wherever He Pleased For The Spiritual Explanation Of The Spectacle Of The Universe.

To Understand Everything Is To Hate Nothing.

His (swami Vivekananda) Words Are Great Music, Phrases In The Style Of Beethoven, Stirring Rhythms Like The March Of Handel Choruses. I Cannot Touch These Sayings Of His, Scattered As They Are Through The Pages Of Books, At Thirty Years' Distance, Without Receiving A Thrill Through My Body Like An Electric Shock. And What Shocks, What Transports, Must Have Been Produced When In Burning Words They Issued From The Lips Of The Hero!

There Are Some Dead Who Are More Alive Than The Living.