Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALInductive 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.
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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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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