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" It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising. "

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

" God is not a dead equation! "

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

" 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. "

" 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 standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. "

" Words, without power, is mere philosophy. "

" Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. "

" Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. "

" 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. "

" Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. "

" 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 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. "

" Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. "

" 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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. "

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

" Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. "

" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? "

" 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. "

" I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. "

" 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. "

" Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. "