“The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.”

“The division of Philosopher and Poet is only apparent, and to the disadvantage of both. It is a sign of disease, and of a sickly constitution.”

“The warfare between poetry and philosophy certainly started with Plato, who was both poet and philosopher.”

“The poet-philosopher put greater stress on the spiritual aspect of our struggle, while the Quaid-e-Azam was mainly concerned with outlining its political aspect: but both were one in their intense desire to assure to the Muslims of India a future on Islamic lines.”

“So the poet in the engineer and the engineer in the poet and both in the architect may be seen here working together, lifelong.”

“Thousands of writers, of poets, of scholars, have laboured to increase knowledge, to dissipate error, and to create that atmosphere of scientific thought, without which the marvels of our century could never appeared. And these thousands of philosophers, of poets, of scholars, of inventors, have themselves been supported by the labour of past centuries. They have been upheld and nourished through life, both physically and mentally, by legions of workers and craftsmen of all sorts. They have drawn their motive force from the environment.”

“It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them.”

“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“There are no rules. However, principles may be discerned in actual practice; for example, in the way people actually speak, or in the lines the poets have written.”

“Philosophers are moral, and poets are picturesque about the country.”