If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALVision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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 standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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