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 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 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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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.
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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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