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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
-
-
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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 IQBAL -
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
God is not a dead equation!
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL