A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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God is not a dead equation!
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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