17 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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