The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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