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

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" 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. "

" Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. "

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" God is not a dead equation! "