It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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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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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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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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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