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He Quotes by Annie Besant
- Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced…
- Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy…
- Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine;…
- The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate…
- We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's…
- 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…
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle