Inductive 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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