Annie Besant Quotes
Top 43 wise famous quotes and sayings by Annie Besant
Annie Besant Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.
A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
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 a congeries, dead as an organism.
When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.
In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.
The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.
When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.
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 back to India her ancient freedom.
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.