Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBALMan is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Thus 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.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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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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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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