The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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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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