But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
MUHAMMAD IQBALNations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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