Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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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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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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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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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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