Raheel Farooq Quotes

That which is worth telling is not worth having.
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Women prefer speaking to talking.
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Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.
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Be at peace with yourself, or you'll be at war with everyone.
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Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.
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Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.
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The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.
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No exceptions to exceptions!
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Limits are always extended, never broken.
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World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!
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Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.
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There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.
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The intelligent talk and the wise listen.
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Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.
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Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!
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The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.
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Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.
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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.
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Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient.
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If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.
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Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.
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The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.
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What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.
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Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.
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Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.
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Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.
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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!
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Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!
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The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.
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Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
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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!
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Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.
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If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.
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A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more.
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It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die.
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Time is conscience of the universe.
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Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.
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The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!
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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!
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Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.
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Artist is not human, but humanity.
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One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.
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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.
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Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.
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Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.
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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.
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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.
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Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.
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Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.
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The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
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A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.
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Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.
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Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.
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Will is intention favored by emotions.
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One mistake cannot justify another.
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Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.
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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.
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Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.
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Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
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Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.
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