God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIndeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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