Annie Besant Quotes

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• Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

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  Inspiring, Thinking, Silent

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

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  Mother, Spiritual, Perfect

  Besant's lecture at the Grand Theatre, Calcutta, on January 15, 1906. "Hindu superiority". Book by Har Bilas Sarda, 1906.

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• There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Annie Besant (1904). “A Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology”

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• Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

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  Selfish, Men, Socialism

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• Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

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  Lying, Responsibility, Two

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• No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Strong

  Annie Besant (2014). “The Spiritual Life”, p.30, Quest Books

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• 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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  Ignorance, Character, Essentials

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• Out of right thinking comes right practice. It is not true that it does not matter what a man believes. It is not true to say, as many say, that a man's beliefs do not matter, it is only his conduct which is of importance; no lasting right conduct grows out of wrong belief. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.

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  Spiritual, Peace, Thinking

  "The Wisdom of the Upanishats: Four Lectures Delivered at the Thirty-first Anniversary Meeting of the Theosophical Society, at Adyar, December, 1906".

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• 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 a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

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  Wise, Boys, Men

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?

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  Support, Unity, Suffering

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• Thought creates character.

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  Character, Power Of Thought

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• I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

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  Children, Winning, Hands

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• No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

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  Religious, Atheist, Philosophy

  "Why God". Book by William J. Pardue, May 10, 2012.

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• The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Men, Meditation

  Annie Besant (1918). “Thought Power, Its Control and Culture”

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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 six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.

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  Yoga, Philosophical, Inspiration

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• For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

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  Christian, Evil, Leader

  Annie Besant (2012). “Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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  May, Our Actions, Morality

  Annie Wood Besant (2011). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.

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  People, Body, Unseen

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• You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

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  Teaching, Practice, Should

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• It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, o­ne of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.

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  Teacher, Character, Islam

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• Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

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  Country, Courage, Adventure

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• A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

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  Religious, Growth, India

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

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  Strong, Passion, Silence

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.

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  Men, Law, Needs

  Annie Besant (1878). “The Law of Population: Its Consequences and Its Bearing Upon Human Conduct and Morals”

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• The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

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  Children, Powerful, Men

  ANNIE BESANT (1911). “THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE”

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