Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
