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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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