Ildan Wise Sayings Quotes

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

This morning do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsaken dreams up as well, wake them up like an insisting rooster!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is in fact not our dream that makes us happy, but chasing that dream!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In every nation’s history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Freedom can be forgotten in the repressive countries. To remember freedom, it will be enough to watch a happy seagull flying in the sky!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don’t ever stop, don’t ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don’t behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

However much you love them, you must let everything and everybody that desperately long for their freedom to be free!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan