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.
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.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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 wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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