Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

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.

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.

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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

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.

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

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

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.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

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.

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.

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

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

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

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

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.

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.