Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 4

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!

Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless!

What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!

Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!

It is good to think; but to think in a right way, that is great!

A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!

There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!

The universe does not have a purpose, but we do have! Our purpose is to re-shape this purposeless universe in a way that it will not be able to kill us!

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

By thinking continuously your past or your future, you kill your today which is the only substantial part of your life!

Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation’s history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!

When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you!

Mystery is a genius teacher: It forces its students to think thoroughly and to ask many questions! The path of mystery gives you much more things than the path of known!

To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!

Not all the problems must be solved! Stick to this philosophy and you will save awful a lot of time! Stick to this philosophy!

Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself!

If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!

If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!

If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!

A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality!

If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!

The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

Adventure is the best way to feel the reality thoroughly!

Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!

What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!

Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can’t get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.

To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!

We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!

Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!

If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!

You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!

If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!

A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!

Only the dull don’t doubt!

A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!

Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!

There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!

The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!

Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!

Just because an impressive storm doesn’t touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!

There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!

The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!

There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!

If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man!

If you keep fighting with yourself, you will have less energy to fight with life!

If you have taught your child how to walk when he is all alone, it means that you have taught him everything!

If you are a sparrow, don’t attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don’t attack the sparrow; be just!

Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!

Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!

For a great willpower, no road has length!

You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?

A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!