“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.”
NatureAll Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal
“Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
Poetry“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“Words, without power, is mere philosophy.”
Power“It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.”
Nature“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 truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.”
Truth“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”
Poetry“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“The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.”
Freedom“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”
Nature“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“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“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”
Faith“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“Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.”
Power“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“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
Poetry“God is not a dead equation!”
God