Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBecome dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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 aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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