Muhammad Iqbal

• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.“
• "Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.“
• "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.“
• "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 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.“
• "Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.“
• "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.“
• "The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.“
• "If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.“
• "The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.“
• "God is not a dead equation!“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.“
• "It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.“
• "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.“
• "The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.“
• "When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.“
• "If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.“
• "Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.“
• "Words, without power, is mere philosophy.“
• "Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.“
• "If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.“
• "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.“
• "Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.“
• "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.“
• "Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.“
• "When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.“
• "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.“

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