Raheel Farooq Quotes

Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.

Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.

The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

Men marry. Women wed.

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient.

Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil.

Time is conscience of the universe.

Friends; the more, the less!

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Limits are always extended, never broken.

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.

Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.

Artist is not human, but humanity.

Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.

Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.

Truth and reality are two different things. Truth is nothing more or less than an expression of reality as you perceive it, while reality being something totally independent of, and indifferent to how you express, or even, perceive it. People differ only in their reference to reality; and this difference is not without its own implications. Certain interpretations have more value in certain situations, and vice versa. Any number of opposite propositions may be true simultaneously, but their truth value will ultimately decide their worth. From which angle to look at reality at a certain time, is a wisdom philosophy is not designed to endow. It can only help you refine your perception. In order to choose and change your mode of perception, you perhaps need Will.

One mistake cannot justify another.

Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.

Runner up is champion of the losers.

Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth.

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.

Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.

Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.

Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

Life feels good if you don't know what it is.

A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more.

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.

A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.

Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.

It's not in the life, it's in the living.

Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.

Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.

Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached!

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.

Will is intention favored by emotions.

Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.

Be at peace with yourself, or you'll be at war with everyone.

Children and journalists need what they don't need actually.

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.