Helena Blavatsky

Mystic, Theosophist Russian 1831 – 1891

Founder of Theosophical Society; promoted spiritual synthesis.

378 quotes

"Gratitude multiplies blessings."
Gratitude
"The mind is the architect of destiny."
Motivation
"Every soul seeks to return to the source of light."
Philosophy
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Success
"There is no religion higher than truth."
Truth
"The more we come in contact with nature, the more we realize how full of wonders it is."
Nature
"The only religion which the future will recognize is the religion of life."
Faith
"Every human being is a divinity in disguise."
Wisdom
"The wheel of the good law moves swiftly."
Philosophy
"We are dying from civilisation and its diseases."
Health
"Ignorance is no excuse when it is ignorance of one's duty."
Knowledge
"The fundamental principle of esoteric philosophy is the absolute unity of all things."
Philosophy
"Man will never be free until the last priest is strangled with the entrails of the last king."
Freedom
"The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence."
Truth
"The phenomenal world is nothing but a reflection of the noumenal."
Philosophy
"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles; meanwhile within man is the soul of the whole."
Life
"There is no accident; nothing is ever lost."
"Every atom is a little universe in itself."
Science
"The future depends on what we do in the present."
Change
"To be happy one must have lost all hope of being otherwise."
Happiness
"There are truths which kill nations."
Truth
"The brain is but the instrument of the mind."
Wisdom
"Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves."
Nature
"Silence is also conversation."
Solitude
"The study of nature is an unending education."
Education
"What we have to do is to strike at the root of evil which is ignorance."
Knowledge
"The perfume of flowers spreads only as far as it can; the perfume of virtue spreads throughout the world."
"Real progress is slow and gradual."
"The greatest of all knowledge is the knowledge of Self."
Knowledge
"There is no death, only transformation."
Death