The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
MUHAMMAD IQBALArt: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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