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" Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. "
Muhammad Iqbal
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" Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. "
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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. "
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" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. "
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" 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. "
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" A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. "
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" Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. "
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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. "
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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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" Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. "
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" 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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" But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events. "
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