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Quotes by Pakistani Authors
"Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition."
"I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand."
"But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them."
"Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament."
"The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience."
"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."
"Conquer yourself, the world is you!"
"What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law."
"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
"Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do."
"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind."
"Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite."
"Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't."
"It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails."
"Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like."
"Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional."
"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."
"Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself."
"Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart."
"I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred."
"Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice."
"Thoughts are ghosts of emotions."
"The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!"
"Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule."
"If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality."
"I'd love to be what I have been."
"Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity."
"That which is worth telling is not worth having."
"I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good."
"I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal."
"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."
"Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit."
"Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy."
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