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" Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. "

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

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

" But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. "

" 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. "

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

" It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. "

" 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. "

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

" Words, without power, is mere philosophy. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. "

" I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. "

" 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 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. "

" Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. "

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

" Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? "

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

" 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. "