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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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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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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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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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