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Man 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die…
- 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…
- 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…
- At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its…
- Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is…
- 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of…
- 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;…
- Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a…
- The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God…
- The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but…
- 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…
- 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…
- Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring…
- Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
More Man Quotes
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- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
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