Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALGod is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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 wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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