Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSince love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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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People 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.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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God is not a dead equation!
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