"Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message."
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"I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam."
"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."
"Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul."
"It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal."
"But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events."
"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience."
"The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain"
"Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings."