Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good strategy of life is obvious: When the right path is found, it must be walked no matter how hard it is and the precious target this path destined to must be arrived at by defeating every difficulty encountered!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don’t ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

May be the road you travel doesn’t give you the beautiful fate you have always dreamed off! Stop and change the road, no matter how difficult it may be!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to have a golden signature, create a good art!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No art is silent! Because art is an original idea and every original idea speaks, every interesting thought screams, every art talks, every art screams! No art is silent! If it is silent, then it is not an art!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Reality is not enough for us, that’s why we have invented art to create different realities!

~ 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

When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A journey deep into the Kingdom of Nature is always a mysterious journey, a Sufistic voyage, a spiritual trip!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more we respect other creatures, the more respect our humanity will get!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you have much higher ethical values than the ethical values of your own people, you stop belonging to your own people, to your own country because your people and your country are now located in the low levels of humanity!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Reaching the top of a high mountain is just a personal victory. But for a victory to be important for the society, it has to be useful for the humanity!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unless humanity gives top priority to the space science, there will be no future for the humanity!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in only one earth! Continuing with the eco-traitor stupid governments means an environmental suicide! Enemies of nature are real barbarians and there is no place for these savages in our civilisation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan