Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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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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Indeed, 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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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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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