Raheel Farooq Quotes & Sayings

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience. — Raheel Farooq

Love rules everything but itself. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

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

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

Sometimes, the most practical thing to do is to think. — Raheel Farooq

Gratitude makes blessings permanent. — Raheel Farooq

Learn, or you'll be made to learn. — Raheel Farooq

Art is what appeals to the a priori. — Raheel Farooq

You can understand a philosophy thoroughly without having to follow it; but you understand religion only partially, that is, as a mere philosophy, unless you follow it. — Raheel Farooq

An egoist is always intelligent, never wise. — Raheel Farooq

I like religion and art because they know they are servants to life; I hate science and philosophy because they think they are its masters. — Raheel Farooq

No exceptions to exceptions! — Raheel Farooq

Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete. — Raheel Farooq

I'd love to be what I have been. — Raheel Farooq

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

Conquer yourself; the world is you! — Raheel Farooq

Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible. — Raheel Farooq

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans. — Raheel Farooq

Content is not king, but a president elected by the votes of those whom it aims to rule. — Raheel Farooq

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. — Raheel Farooq

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. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

Ah Life,
Thou art a false truth! — Raheel Farooq

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

What we know that we know forms our intellect; what we know that we do not know makes our faith; what we do not know that we know constitutes our emotions; and what we do not know that we do not know is our fate. — Raheel Farooq

Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom. — Raheel Farooq

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

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! — Raheel Farooq

Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite. — Raheel Farooq

Knowledge cannot be maintained without character. — Raheel Farooq

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. — Raheel Farooq

Don't call me an egoist.; let an egoist name me so! — Raheel Farooq

Philosophy is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Raheel Farooq

Women prefer speaking to talking. — Raheel Farooq

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

Teenage crush is like flu. If you find a remedy for it, it lasts for a couple of days. If you don't, it still lasts for a couple of days. — Raheel Farooq

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. — Raheel Farooq

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

A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more. — Raheel Farooq

Impartiality is to accept that we are partial. — Raheel Farooq

Wisdom is intelligence in context. — Raheel Farooq

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. — Raheel Farooq

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient. — Raheel Farooq

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit. — Raheel Farooq

There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

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. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

Live to ask. Die to answer. — Raheel Farooq

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! — Raheel Farooq

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic. — Raheel Farooq

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. — Raheel Farooq

Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule. — Raheel Farooq

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered. — Raheel Farooq

Children and journalists need what they don't need actually. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

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. — Raheel Farooq

Every religion has its own gods. The One God has only one religion. — Raheel Farooq

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul. — Raheel Farooq

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! — Raheel Farooq

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy. — Raheel Farooq

The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles. — Raheel Farooq

Don't quarrel with yourself; you'll only lose! — Raheel Farooq

The wise respond; the otherwise react. — Raheel Farooq

Moods are adjectives of the grammar of life. — Raheel Farooq

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! — Raheel Farooq

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

Friends; the more, the less! — Raheel Farooq

Men are different; sheep are all alike. — Raheel Farooq

Smokers live faster. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

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. — Raheel Farooq

Time decides the limits of existence. Nothing can be infinite if it exists in time. — Raheel Farooq

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability. — Raheel Farooq

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

Man is doomed not when he does not know, but when he does not want to know. — Raheel Farooq

A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine. — Raheel Farooq

Bread cannot feed the addicts of beauty. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them. — Raheel Farooq

Colours are nature gone wild. — Raheel Farooq

Religion of the masses is absurd. But so is their science! — Raheel Farooq

Couples tend to think that being single is always singular. Singles tend to believe that being a couple is always copulatory. — Raheel Farooq

Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others. — Raheel Farooq

Arguing with a lawyer is not the hardest thing in the world; not arguing is. — Raheel Farooq

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

One mistake cannot justify another. — Raheel Farooq

Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like. — Raheel Farooq

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

Hope makes the wise stronger and the unwise weaker. — Raheel Farooq

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

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