Necessity Imperfect Quotes by Annie Besant

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

— Annie Besant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

— Annie Besant

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

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

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for…

— Annie Besant

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

— Annie Besant

The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any…

— Annie Besant