Raheel Farooq Quotes

Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.

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

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

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.

Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.

One mistake cannot justify another.

Will is intention favored by emotions.

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

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

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

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

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.

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.

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.

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

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

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.

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

Artist is not human, but humanity.

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.

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

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

Time is conscience of the universe.

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

A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more.

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

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

Women prefer speaking to talking.

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

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

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

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

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

No exceptions to exceptions!

Limits are always extended, never broken.

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

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.

The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

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

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

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

Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.

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

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

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