Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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