If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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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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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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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