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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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 truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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