Swami Vivekananda Quotes
This is the great fact: strength is life.
Vivekananda, Swami. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Advaita Ashrama, 1989.
In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt's followers bolted the Republican party when he failed to capture the presidential nomination. They formed the Progressive party. On the eve of the Progressive convention, Roosevelt was by a reporter asked how he felt. The party thereafter was often referred to as the "Bull Moose Party."
The largest kingdom the world had known was divided up among his generals.
Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta (Bengali: [nɔrendronatʰ dɔto]), was an Indian Hindu monk. He was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the contemporary Hindu reform movements in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He is perhaps best known for his speech which began with the words "Sisters and brothers of America ...," in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.
