Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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