But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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