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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIndeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine 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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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