Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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 immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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