Q0214

Swami Vivekananda

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.
Thinker Swami Vivekananda
School Neo-Vedānta
Source Chicago Parliament of Religions et al.
Theme Awakening
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Chicago Parliament of Religions et al., within the tradition of Neo-Vedānta. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of awakening, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Swami Vivekananda's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

APA: Swami Vivekananda. (n.d.). Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0214

MLA: Swami Vivekananda. “Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0214.

Chicago: Swami Vivekananda. “Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0214.

Same theme

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  1. The beginning of philosophy is a consciousness of one's own weakness and inability concerning necessary things.
  2. Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!
  3. Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
  4. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
  5. That thou art.

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