Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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