Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWater before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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 immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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