Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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