Philosophy Quote by Khaled Hosseini — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“wherever you turn there is Allah's purpose”

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.”

“On a high mountain I stood,”

“I said to you,”

“...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.”

“Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.”

“Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.”

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”

“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”