If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThus 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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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.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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