Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIn 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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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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