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.
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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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