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"39 Annie Besant Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 1 October 1847. Died: 20 September 1933 | Socialist | Theosophist | Activist | Writer | Orator | Educationist | Philanthropist |

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

No philosophy Religion Ever brought So glad
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The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.

The Atheist Waits For proof God
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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

Sun worship Pure forms Nature worship Noble religions
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths.

Karma Brings us Ever back To rebirth
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Religions are branches from a common trunk,human ignorance.

Religions Branches Common trunk Human ignorance
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I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy.

That woman More free Islam In Christianity
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A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

A people Can prosper Bad government Suffer
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.

Beautiful story The sacrifice Noble father His child
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Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

Socialism Ideal state Can never Achieved
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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.

A myth Far truer History Story
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After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

After death We live Some time Astral body
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world.

The worlds Man Evolving He treads
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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

Imperious intellectual Moral necessity Can drive Religious mind
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

Ever been Queerest mixture Weakness Strength
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Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

Nation born Not begin The spirit The heart
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There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

Wise politics Without thought Beforehand
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The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

The birth Science Death knell An arbitrary
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Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution

Constituent elements Spirit However manifold Its phenomena
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The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

The essence Religion The knowledge God
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Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

Continent May break Emerge Human race
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What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

The object Education To train The body
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An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

Accurate knowledge The past A country Is necessary
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Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

Islam believes Many prophets A confirmation Old scriptures
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A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

A prophet Much wider His followers More liberal
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There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

Exclusive claims Christianity It hostile Other faiths
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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.

For centuries The leaders Christian thought Women
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

Not monogamy Legal wife Mistresses out Of sight
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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.

Always take Religion Its best Its worst
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The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.

The body Never More alive Dead
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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.

Refusal Believe Until proof Rational position
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India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

A country Every Great religion Finds
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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.

Every person Every nation Own particular keynote Brings
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It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilized world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

The duty The followers Islam To spread
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There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith

More misunderstanding Islam Other religions The world
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We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

Learn much Our sleep The knowledge Gained slowly
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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.
Durable things Are built Violent passion Nature grows
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Remain silent Even think Not prepared To act
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

The heat Coal differs Do memory Perceptions
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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 endeavor so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind

True basis Morality Utility The adaptation
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Annie Besant Quotes & Sayings