Raheel Farooq Quotes

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

~ Raheel Farooq

Learn, or you'll be made to learn.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.

~ Raheel Farooq

A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.

~ Raheel Farooq

Friends; the more, the less!

~ Raheel Farooq

Men marry. Women wed.

~ Raheel Farooq

We talk what we think but do what we believe.

~ 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

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

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

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

~ Raheel Farooq

I'd love to be what I have been.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ 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

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

~ 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

Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible, few actually know where it is possible.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.

~ Raheel Farooq

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

~ Raheel Farooq

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

~ 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

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

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ 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

Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.

~ Raheel Farooq

One mistake cannot justify another.

~ Raheel Farooq

Will is intention favored by emotions.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq