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- A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
- The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole…
- My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories…
- The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of…
- This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -…
- 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…
- There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of…
- After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle