134 Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal

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

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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

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

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

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

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

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 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.