Muhammad Iqbal

"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."

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

"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals."

"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."

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

"The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind."

"The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something."

"Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities."

"Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture."

"When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry."

"Words, without power, is mere philosophy."

"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."