The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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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 thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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