Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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