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 IQBALWhy hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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 standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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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 wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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