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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPeople 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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