Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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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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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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