Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man’s thought (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself! (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one’s knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
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 (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
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 (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
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 Iqbal Quotes)
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
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 (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
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 (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment (Muhammad Iqbal Quotes)