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A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

Annie Besant

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.
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God Human Mad Possible Thinking
Where love rules, laws are not needed.
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Law Love Need Rule
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.
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Country Desire Future Judgement Knowledge Necessary Past Present Understand
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.
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Action Blessing Kind Live Man Moral Ourselves Rule True
Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places – on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.
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Battle God Law Leadership Literature Place Poetry Politics Relation Woman
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
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Achievement Ideal Man
The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.
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Energy Man Meditation Missing Opportunity Wasted Time
Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light.
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Hide Light Purity
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
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Faith Religion
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 Evidence Experience Limitation Logic Mad Ourselves Position
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.
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Desire Live Man Passion People Space World
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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Evolution Lie Moral Sentence Work
Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.
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Body Law Man Nature Need Satisfaction
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.
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Best Practice Religion Teaching Worst Yourself
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
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End Evil Imperfection
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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Humanity Life Nation Person Race

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

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