Raheel Farooq Quotes - Page 2

Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I think I---a man in totally unconditional pursuit of happiness, whatever it is, wherever it lies---am only supposed to consider which of them has more in common with life!

One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.

A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser.

There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.

World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!

Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.

Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.

It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die.

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.

Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.

Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being complete in itself, is in no need to follow any of them. The appearance of disorder---or even order, in contrast---is when we observe something as a detached entity. Taken as a whole, the Universe is absolute, nothing being lacking, insignificant, or improvable. So, any such thing as a Theory of Everything (TOE) is a mere chimera.

Children are prophets of nature.

Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

We talk what we think but do what we believe.

The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.

If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves.

Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that we can't even trace it back to its origins. All we're left with in the end is ambiguity, uncertainty, lethargy and and Kafka!

Learn, or you'll be made to learn.

The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.

The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneously.

The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.

The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.

Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.

Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.

The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.

The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor.

Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule.

The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.

Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it.

Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace.

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more.

We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it.

Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

What," "how," "when," etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask "why" is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls on intellect.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.

The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.

Everyone is the right person for the right person.