Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 2

The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!

You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!

Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!

Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy!

Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!

However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!

Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!

To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!

Everybody walks to somewhere or everybody runs to somewhere simply because those somewheres don’t walk to us or don’t run to us! No struggle happens, no nothing happens!

What is a great success? You haven’t hurt anyone? That is a great success! You haven’t ignored any person? That is a great success! You haven’t lied? That is a great success! You haven’t deceived a person? That’s a great success! And now you see how very difficult to have a real success!

No child’s face is dirty even if it is muddy, because an innocent face has so much light that anything comes onto it becomes almost invisible!

Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!

When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!

He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!

Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds!

Sincere wishes come true.

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.

There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!

True thinking brings a good life!

Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind!

Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!

No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation!

If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!

Earth can live longer then the humanity or the humanity can live longer than the earth! Both are possible!

You can’t walk till the end on an active railway line and you can’t walk till the end on the road of lies, because sooner or later you collide with the truth!

A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!

At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!

If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!

I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!

Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!

Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!

A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!

It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.

It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!

Read, so as to know; speak, so as to teach; write, so as to think!

Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!

A thought which is created in a second can change the thousand years of the World!

Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history!

You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive!

You see only the cat’s paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!

Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!

Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!

If you are not rising with ethics, you will sink with every rise!

If you see a big danger ahead, don’t start running immediately; because it may be the challenge that at the end you shall become stronger than ever before! Do not avoid every danger!

In the future, you will always encounter the past!

The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than himself!

Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!

Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!

For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!

The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!

If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos!

The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!