Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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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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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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