"Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture." ― Muhammad Iqbal Topic(s): Beauty More From Muhammad Iqbal "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 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." "The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God." More In Beauty "It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people."― Anthony Kiedis "But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose."― Lafcadio Hearn "The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."― James Baldwin