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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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