Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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 possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
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I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.
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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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Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.
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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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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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When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.
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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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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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It 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.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism
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My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.
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It is absolutely certain that God does exist.
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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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The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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