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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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 wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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 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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