It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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 have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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