I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBecome dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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