“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
“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”
FaithAll Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal
“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.”
Experience“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“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“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“It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.”
Nature“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
Poetry“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”
Poetry“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”
Faith“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.”
Motivational“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”
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“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.”
Experience“God is not a dead equation!”
God“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.”
Experience“The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.”
Freedom“Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.”
Experience“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“Words, without power, is mere philosophy.”
Power