Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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That 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.
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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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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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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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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 aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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