Raheel Farooq

“Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Wisdom is intelligence in context.”

— Raheel Farooq

The wise are in no need to know much

— Raheel Farooq

“Art is what appeals to the a priori.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Conquer yourself; the world is you!”

— Raheel Farooq

“Limits are always extended, never broken.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Artist is not human, but humanity.”

— Raheel Farooq

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

— Raheel Farooq

“The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”

— Raheel Farooq

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

— Raheel Farooq

“Things happen when they should, not when they can.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Feminism sounds great when advocated by men.”

— Raheel Farooq

Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom

— Raheel Farooq

“The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.”

— Raheel Farooq

“The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.”

— Raheel Farooq

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

— Raheel Farooq

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

— Raheel Farooq

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

— Raheel Farooq

“You can understand a philosophy thoroughly without having to follow it; but you understand religion only partially, that is, as a mere…

— Raheel Farooq

“I like religion and art because they know they are servants to life; I hate science and philosophy because they think they…

— Raheel Farooq

Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice

— Raheel Farooq

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations

— Raheel Farooq

“An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself…

— Raheel Farooq

“Love rules everything but itself.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Children are prophets of nature.”

— Raheel Farooq

Better exert power than justify it

— Raheel Farooq

“No exceptions to exceptions!”

— Raheel Farooq

“Live to ask. Die to answer.”

— Raheel Farooq

“One mistake cannot justify another.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Women prefer speaking to talking.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Imagination is thinking beyond language.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Learn, or you'll be made to learn.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.”

— Raheel Farooq

“A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Hope makes the wise stronger and the unwise weaker.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.”

— Raheel Farooq

“The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.”

— Raheel Farooq