Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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