Annie Besant

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the…

— Annie Besant

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives…

— Annie Besant

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was…

— Annie Besant

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake…

— Annie Besant

Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by…

— Annie Besant

Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole,…

— Annie Besant

Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it…

— Annie Besant

Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in…

— Annie Besant

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid…

— Annie Besant

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there…

— Annie Besant

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the…

— Annie Besant

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only…

— Annie Besant

What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he…

— Annie Besant

Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its…

— Annie Besant

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express…

— Annie Besant

Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself…

— Annie Besant

I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands…

— Annie Besant

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends…

— Annie Besant

God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its…

— Annie Besant

Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the…

— Annie Besant

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay,…

— Annie Besant

“To see the Logos, the principle of consciousness, crucified on the cross of time and space in our own selves is not…

— Annie Besant

The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the…

— Annie Besant

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you…

— Annie Besant

There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be,…

— Annie Besant

No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in…

— Annie Besant