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 IQBALRise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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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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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.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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