Annie Besant Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• 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.

  Annie Besant

  Lying, Responsibility, Two

• 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.

  Annie Besant

  People, Body, Unseen

• The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

  Annie Besant

  Compassion, Misery, Evolution

  Annie Besant (1913). “Vegetarianism in the Light of Theosophy”

• 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.

  Annie Besant

  Elements, Matter, Spirit

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.217, Jazzybee Verlag

• Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

  Annie Besant

  Simple, Men, Evolution

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.744, Jazzybee Verlag

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