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" Words, without power, is mere philosophy. "

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" The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. "

" That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance. "

" God is not a dead equation! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. "

" 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 thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

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