"The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on……" — Annie Besant
"The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics."
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Annie Besant
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122 Quotes by Annie Besant
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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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