"The essence of religion is the knowledge of……" — Annie Besant
"The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men."
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122 Quotes by Annie Besant
Annie Besant has 122 quotes on this site.
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience…
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
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The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from…
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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That…
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An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who…
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Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
— Aristotle
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
— Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very…
— Sai Baba
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy…
— Irving Babbitt
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
— Eric Bana
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
— John Adams
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
— Annie Besant
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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