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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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