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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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