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96 quotes by Annie Besant

Annie Besant Annie Besant in 1897 Born (1847-10-01)1 October 1847 Clapham, London, United Kingdom Died 20 September 1933(1933-09-20) (aged 85) Adyar, Madras Presidency, British India Known for Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator Religion Hinduism Spouse(s) Frank Besant (m. 1867, div. 1873) Children Arthur, Mabel Part of a series on Theosophy Theosophy Traditional Theosophy Traditional Theosophy topics Esoteric...
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary... →

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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 absent from it; the... →

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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

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In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the... →

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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, and the chain... →

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The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our... →

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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by... →

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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 monogamy. In... →

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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... →

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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so... →

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The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the... →

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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the... →

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