If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal
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More quotes by Muhammad Iqbal
- 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.
- Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
- 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.
- But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
- Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.