Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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 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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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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