Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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