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Quotes by Raheel Farooq

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

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.

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

Friends; the more, the less!

Men marry. Women wed.

We talk what we think but do what we believe.

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.

We know the value of a blessing when we dont have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it.

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

Id love to be what I have been.

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

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.

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

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.

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.

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

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

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

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.

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.