The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
MUHAMMAD IQBALInductive 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 thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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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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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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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