Phrase by 'Annie Besant'
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.
Author: Annie Besant - English PhilosopherMan , Skin , Death , Butterfly
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.
Author: Annie Besant - English PhilosopherTrue , Happiness , Morality , Promotion
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.
Author: Annie Besant - English PhilosopherMan , History , Anniversary , Hero
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
Author: Annie Besant - English PhilosopherNever , Man , Selfish , Socialism
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.
Author: Annie Besant - English PhilosopherBeautiful , Nature , God , Beauty
What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man.
Author: Annie Besant - English PhilosopherLife , Man , Truth , Brotherhood
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.
Author: Annie Besant - English PhilosopherOnly , History , Story , Shadows , Myth
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.
Author: Annie Besant - English PhilosopherPeople , Bad , Good , Government
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.
Author: Annie Besant - English PhilosopherGood , Past , Nation , India
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
Author: Annie Besant - English PhilosopherOnly , End , Evil , Imperfection
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