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.
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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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 ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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