But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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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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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.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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