Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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