But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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 the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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 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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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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