25 Quotes by Annie Besant
Annie Besant was a prominent British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, and orator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was a leading figure in the Fabian Society and played a crucial role in the formation of the Indian National Congress. Besant was also heavily involved in the Theosophical Society and served as its president for several years. She was a prolific writer and published numerous books and pamphlets on various subjects, including religion, philosophy, and social issues. Her tireless work for social justice and equality earned her widespread admiration and respect. (Bio)
Annie Besant Quotes
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.
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. (Meaning)
Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings. (Meaning)
God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.
Where love rules, laws are not needed.
There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
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.
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.
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.
Thought creates character.
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.
Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light
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.
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.
The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
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.
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?
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.
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
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.
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
― Annie Besant Quotes
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