Quotes by Muhammed Iqbal

• 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.
• The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
• Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
• The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
• It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
• In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
• Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
• But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
• 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.
• But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
• Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
• A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
• 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.
• 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.
• The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
• Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.