Muhammed Iqbal Quotes


"The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Soul, Body)

"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."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: History, Life, Nature, Time, Experience, Ideas, Possibility, Maturity, Reason, Treatment)

"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."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Christianity, Man, Mission, Psychology)

"Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Ego, Evolution, Self)

"Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Instinct, Man, Passion)

"The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Experience, Man, Reality, Religious)

"It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: World)

"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."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Life, People, Discipline, Purpose, First, Meaning, Religious, Understanding)

"Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Life, Soul, Body, Universe)

"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."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Time, Moments, Nothing, Universe)

"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."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Life, People, Achievement, Growth, Perception, Unity, World)

"But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Experience, Knowledge)

"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."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Experience, Religious, Spirit, Value, World)

"A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Deed, Ego, Man, May, Understanding, Wrong)

"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."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Experience, Knowledge, Character, Being, May, Yield)

"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."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Truth, Religious)

"The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Ego)

"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."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Health, Life, Purpose, Destiny, Direction, Ego, Environment, Evolution, Present, Religious)

"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."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Infinite, Meeting, Space)

"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."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Experience, Science, Life, Religion, Necessity)

"The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Time, Thought, Mind, Space)

"Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Decision, Fate)