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One Quotes by Annie Besant
- It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
- My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole…
- 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…
- Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its…
- Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the…
- One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material…
- 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…
- Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
- Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it…
- The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or…
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