Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPeople who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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