Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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