Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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 immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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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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