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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALDivine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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 standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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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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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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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