43 ordspråk av Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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Thou doest not know thy own destiny and doest not know that it gets its worth from thee - otherwise the luminous ruby is only a piece of stone.
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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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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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