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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIslam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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 thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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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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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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