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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALMan is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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