Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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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 thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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