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Quotes by Pakistani Authors
"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."
"We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live."
"Everyone is the right person for the right person."
"I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand."
"Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do."
"I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big."
"All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them."
"Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite."
"World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!"
"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."
"Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity."
"Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one."
"Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself."
"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."
"The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!"
"Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart."
"Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart."
"A successful father is not more successful than his children."
"Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule."
"Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there."
"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
"Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?"
"Words, without power, is mere philosophy."
"I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services."
"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."
"Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament."
"I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election."
"I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good."
"What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law."
"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind."
"The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents."
"I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer."
"The intelligent talk and the wise listen."
"We must tell girls their voices are important."
"But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money."
"Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit."
"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."
"Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice."
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