God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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 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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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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