Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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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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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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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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