Raheel Quotes & Sayings

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. — Raheel Farooq

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience. — Raheel Farooq

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them. — Raheel Farooq

Met you as a stranger
Took you as a friend
Hope we meet in Heaven
Where friendship never ends — Raheel Sharif

We talk what we think but do what we believe. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

All true are not truthful. — Raheel Farooq

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

Love, endure, persist ... Everything will return to you, innocent fool! — 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Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.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

Things happen when they should, not when they can. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

Will is intention favored by emotions. — Raheel Farooq

When sceptical about reality, man tends to believe the absurd. — 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

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

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

Don't think so deeply ... so taking decisions will be difficult ... — Raheel Habib

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

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

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

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

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

Artist is not human, but humanity. — Raheel Farooq

That which is worth telling is not worth having. — Raheel Farooq

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

Everyone is the right person for the right person. — 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

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

Knowledge cannot be maintained without character. — Raheel Farooq

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

Man is meant for good but designed for evil. — 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

One mistake cannot justify another. — Raheel Farooq

Better exert power than justify it! — Raheel Farooq

Colours are nature gone wild. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

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

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions. — Raheel Farooq

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

Limits are always extended, never broken. — Raheel Farooq

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition. — 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

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. — Raheel Farooq

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

Smokers live faster. — Raheel Farooq

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture. — 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

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

Children are prophets of nature. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trying to straighten the question mark! — Raheel Farooq

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

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

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

Stupidity is not a behavior; it's a religion. One can die for it! — Raheel Farooq

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

Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule. — 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

Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is; it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions. — Raheel Farooq