Thursday, October 4, 2007

Iqbal's Thoughts

For centuries Eastern heart and intellect have been absorbed in the question - Does God Exist? I propose to raise a new question - new , that is to say , for the East - Does man exist?

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Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

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Given character and healthy imagination , it is possible to reconstruct this world of sin and misery into a veritable paradise

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It is idle to seek logical truth in poetry. The ideal of magination is beauty , not truth. Do not then try to show a poet's greatheness by quoting passages from his works which, in your opinion, embody scientific truth

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