Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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 Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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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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