Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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 should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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