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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThough the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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