"What is the essence of theosophy? It is……" — Annie Besant
"What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man."
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Annie Besant
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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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More Brotherhood Quotes
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and…
— Lee Atwater
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on…
— Pearl Bailey
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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
— Pierre Bayle
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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be…
— Alfred Adler
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they…
— William Blake
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United we stand, divided we fall.
— Aesop
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Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.
— Tom Brokaw
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We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot…
— Abdallah II
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the…
— Dan Brown
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if…
— Abdallah II
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