The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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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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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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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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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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 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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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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God is not a dead equation!
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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 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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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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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