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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhen truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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 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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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