If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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 ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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