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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALEnds and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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