The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The world is not prepared yet to understand the philosophy of Occult Sciences - let them assure themselves first of all that… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths."… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The man might have become a Power, but he preferred to remain an Ass. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image