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 IQBALI have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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