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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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