Best Annie Besant Quotes
- The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. Blunders
- There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths. Christianity
- To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was… All
- For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise… Centuries
- In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what… All
- Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that… Battle
- Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul… Atheism
- I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches… Christianity
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical… Any
- The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour… Action
- A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of… Cast
- Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its… Butterfly
- Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly… Abraham
- In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows… All
- Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see… Blush
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may… Able
- The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the… Any
- We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them… All
- A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant… All
- A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is… Administration
- All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die… All
- Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which… Among
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so… Belonging
- As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole… Advances
- As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is… Brain
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