It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSince 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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 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.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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