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Muhammad Iqbal


Pakistani
November 9, 1877
Poet
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.


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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.


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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.


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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.


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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.


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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.


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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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.
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