The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
MUHAMMAD IQBALMan is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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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 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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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