Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal
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. – Muhammad Iqbal
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. – Muhammad Iqbal
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. – Muhammad Iqbal
These people have no religion, neither are they idolaters, but are a very gentle race, without the knowledge of any iniquity; they neither kill, nor steal, nor carry weapons… they have a knowledge that there is a God above, and are firmly persuaded that we have come from heaven. – Christopher Columbus