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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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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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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God is not a dead equation!
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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