Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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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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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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