Muhammad Iqbal

“Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.”

“Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.”

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

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

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

“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 ul...”

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

“I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.”

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

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

“Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?”