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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• 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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• 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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• Where love rules, laws are not needed.

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  Law, Needed

  Annie Besant (1912). “Theosophy”, London [etc.] T. C. & E. C. Jack; New York, Dodge publishing Company [1912]

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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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• 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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  Nature, Butterfly, Form

  Annie Wood Besant (1884). “Our Corner”

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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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• Thought creates character.

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  Character, Power Of Thought

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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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• Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light

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  Glasses, Light, Lamps

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• Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

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  Intelligent, Morality, Relation

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• 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.

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  Work, Men, Daily Tasks

  Annie Besant (1912). “Theosophy”, London [etc.] T. C. & E. C. Jack; New York, Dodge publishing Company [1912]

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Race, Humanity, Chords

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

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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 One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.

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  Reality, Appearance, Mask

  Annie Besant (2009). “Death - and After?”, p.70, The Floating Press

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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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  Believe, Ignorance, Denial

  Annie Besant (1890). “Why I Became a Theosophist”

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• Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

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  Death, Building Up, Destruction

  Annie Besant (2016). “The Seven Principles of Man”, p.10, BookRix

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• Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let men recognize this truth, and the hour of their liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave the soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in love.

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  Karma, Strong, Men

  "The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant".

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• Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.

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  Success, Yoga, Men

  Annie Besant (2017). “The Nature and Practice of Yoga”, BookRix

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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 arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

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  Strong, Passion, Class

  Annie Wood Besant (1910). “The Changing World: And Lectures to Theosophical Students; Fifteen Lectures Delivered in London During May, June, and July 1909”

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