Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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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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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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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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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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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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