Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThat is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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 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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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God is not a dead equation!
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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