Annie Besant

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there…

— Annie Besant

If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for…

— Annie Besant

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

— Annie Besant

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of…

— Annie Besant

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties.…

— Annie Besant

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order…

— Annie Besant

Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our…

— Annie Besant

In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as…

— Annie Besant

If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we…

— Annie Besant

Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are…

— Annie Besant

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid…

— Annie Besant

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay,…

— Annie Besant

Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter;…

— Annie Besant

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of…

— Annie Besant

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as…

— Annie Besant

There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things…

— Annie Besant

Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself…

— Annie Besant

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon…

— Annie Besant

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however…

— Annie Besant

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the…

— Annie Besant

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

— Annie Besant

I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the…

— Annie Besant

In the light of reincarnation life changes its aspect, for it becomes the school of the eternal Man within us, who seeks…

— Annie Besant

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but…

— Annie Besant

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means -…

— Annie Besant