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Quotes by Pakistani Authors
"Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite."
"Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there."
"I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, 'If he comes, what would you do Malala?' then I would reply to myself, 'Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.'But then I said, 'If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.'Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that 'I even want education for your children as well.' And I will tell him, 'That's what I want to tell you, now do what you want."
"Limits are always extended, never broken."
"I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer."
"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."
"Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms."
"The intelligent talk and the wise listen."
"Thoughts are ghosts of emotions."
"Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world."
"If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality."
"In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles."
"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."
"Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy."
"Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!"
"No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men."
"All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one."
"Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament."
"From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible."
"We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program."
"Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications."
"Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided."
"Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is, it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions."
"Life feels good if you don't know what it is."
"A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more."
"The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively."
"What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen."
"Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more."
"Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete."
"Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it."
"We talk what we think but do what we believe."
"Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that we can't even trace it back to its origins. All we're left with in the end is ambiguity, uncertainty, lethargy and and Kafka!"
"Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong."
"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."
"Children and journalists need what they don't need actually."
"The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue."
"Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions."
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