Raheel Farooq Quotes

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

~ Raheel Farooq

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.

~ Raheel Farooq

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.

~ Raheel Farooq

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.

~ 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

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ 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

Artist is not human, but humanity.

~ Raheel Farooq

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.

~ 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

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

~ Raheel Farooq

Time is conscience of the universe.

~ 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

Men are different, sheep are all alike.

~ Raheel Farooq

A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ 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

Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I think I---a man in totally unconditional pursuit of happiness, whatever it is, wherever it lies---am only supposed to consider which of them has more in common with life!

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

~ Raheel Farooq

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ 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

The ordeal is not that truth does not win, it is that it wins in the end.

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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

~ Raheel Farooq

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.

~ Raheel Farooq

The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

~ Raheel Farooq

There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.

~ Raheel Farooq

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

~ Raheel Farooq

Limits are always extended, never broken.

~ Raheel Farooq