The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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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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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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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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.
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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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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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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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