“Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.”
Power
“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
PoetryAll Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal
“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”
Poetry“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”
Nature“The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.”
Freedom“Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
Poetry“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.”
Health“The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.”
Experience“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.”
Best“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.”
Alone“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.”
Experience“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.”
Experience“Words, without power, is mere philosophy.”
Power“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
Poetry“Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.”
Experience“It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.”
Nature“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.”
Alone“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.”
Religion“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.”
Motivational“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.”
Men“God is not a dead equation!”
God