Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When a joker dies, the joke remains.”

“Most sane people feel happy way less often than they act happy.”

“Like spirituality, insanity frees us from the addiction to happiness.”

“The problem with the idea of cause and effect is that what is deemed the cause is an effect.”

“Each and every event was unavoidable, and was avoidable only in theory. Even my realizing and my saying that, and your reading or hearing, and your agreeing or disagreeing with that.”

“What is seen or heard is a product of seeing or hearing.”

“A truth is not any less truthful, when it is said by someone who did not discover, or does not understand, it.”

“Research is often the search for facts that support one’s prejudice(s); and the ignoring, and/or even hiding, of facts that do the opposite.”

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”

“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”

“Unless you are spiritually awakened, being happy requires you to ignore or forget other people’s suffering.”

“Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.”

“Some truths, some people will never understand; some, no one will ever understand.”

“Sixty seconds of laughter is way more pleasurable than sixty days of happiness alone.”

“Happiness is sweet; its pursuit, bitter.”

“The absence of doubt is not necessarily a sign of the presence of truth.”

“Saints and sinners are chasing the very same thing: happiness. What differs are the vehicles with which they do the chasing.”

“Some attempts to understand something or someone are like trying to figure out how an engine of a car works by dissecting a tyre.”

“We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.”