IndianPoet and Philosopher, known for his influential efforts to direct his fellow Muslims toward the establishment of a separate Muslim state. 1877-1938 Popularity:
“Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings”
“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 spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.”
