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.
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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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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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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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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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