The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThough the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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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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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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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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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