Annie Besant
Annie Besant
Annie Besantwas a prominent British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth1 October 1847
ignorance character essentials
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
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Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
race humanity chords
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
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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 injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.
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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 proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.
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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 to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
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There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
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The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
teaching heart illumination
The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.
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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
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A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.