Raheel Farooq Quotes - Page 2

The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.
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Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.
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Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite.
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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.
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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!
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Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.
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Man is meant for good but designed for evil.
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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.
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We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.
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Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.
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Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.
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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.
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Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.
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Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.
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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.
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Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.
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I'd love to be what I have been.
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Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.
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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.
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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.
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We talk what we think but do what we believe.
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Men marry. Women wed.
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Friends; the more, the less!
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A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.
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Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.
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The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.
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The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
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Learn, or you'll be made to learn.
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Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.
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All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.
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Life feels good if you don't know what it is.
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If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.
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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.
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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!
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The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.
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Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.
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It's not in the life, it's in the living.
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Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.
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That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.
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Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.
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Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.
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Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule.
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Everyone is the right person for the right person.
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A successful father is not more successful than his children.
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Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.
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Children are prophets of nature.
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Children and journalists need what they don't need actually.
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A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser.
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Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.
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Truth and reality are two different things. Truth is nothing more or less than an expression of reality as you perceive it, while reality being something totally independent of, and indifferent to how you express, or even, perceive it. People differ only in their reference to reality; and this difference is not without its own implications. Certain interpretations have more value in certain situations, and vice versa. Any number of opposite propositions may be true simultaneously, but their truth value will ultimately decide their worth. From which angle to look at reality at a certain time, is a wisdom philosophy is not designed to endow. It can only help you refine your perception. In order to choose and change your mode of perception, you perhaps need Will.
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The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor.
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The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.
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Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.
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Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.
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Runner up is champion of the losers.
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The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.
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A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.
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The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.
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Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.
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Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.
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