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 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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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