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.
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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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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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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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 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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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God is not a dead equation!
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