50 Quotes by H. P. Blavatsky

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire – the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.

Be humble, if thou would’st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.

Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but “lies asleep.”

Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.