Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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 ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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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 standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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