But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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.
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