Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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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.
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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