The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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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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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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