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 IQBALThe scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
-
-
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL