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Which 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…
- Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
- Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad,…
- The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and…
- Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
- India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
- There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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;…
- Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in…
- 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 worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate…
- Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are built, and by…
- 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…
- The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on…
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