Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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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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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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