Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can’t see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more money you spend on guns, the less money you spend on people! More weapons, less happiness; more guns, more misery!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any idiot can kill his enemy with a gun, the hardest is to kill your enemy with love! Love kills her enemy by making the enemy her friend

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There isn't a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

They say human is a thinking animal; in times of war, don’t even use the adjective 'thinking'!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To enter the land of wisdom, firstly start changing the angles you look at the things!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle’s eye!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are paths above the paths, the paths of the birds! There are paths above the paths of the birds, the paths of the clouds! And there are paths above the paths of the clouds, the paths of the planets! When you are travelling on a path, never forget that there are higher paths, there are higher wisdoms over your head!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever happens when the seed meets the soil, the same thing happens when you meet the wisdom!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You must let other people to challenge your truths; you must let them to question your faith and the reason for this is very simple: Your truths might be very wrong; your faith might be very mistaken. Don’t be a castle; you need bridges surrounding you, not walls! And remember that walls belong only to cowards!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is offering you infinite paths! To get stuck in one path is nothing but shallowness! Go deep, discover other lanes!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The ‘stream’ we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan