Raheel Farooq Quotes

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

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

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

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

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

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

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.

Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.

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.

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

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

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

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

Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.

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

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

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.

The intelligent talk and the wise listen.