Muhammad Iqbal Short Quotes

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Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

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Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and then die in the hands of politicians.

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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

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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 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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

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It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

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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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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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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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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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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

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