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
bidding momentum purpose
'Nature is conquered by obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with them and not against them. We can choose out of her boundless stores the forces that serve our purpose in momentum, in direction, and so on, and their very invariability becomes the guarantee of our success.
mixtures weakness strength-and-weakness
I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
profound sun noble
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
buddhist mistake buddhism
The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.