Turkish Literature Quotes

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

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

Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Here is a wonderful habit: From time to time stop; move not; speak not; just watch the nature, because this is the best way to realise explicitly the miracles surrounding us!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A beautiful mind is like a beautiful path! The more you travel with it, the more you find peace and happiness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

An illusionist can make himself disappear; a musician can do the same thing: When he plays a piano, after a while we start seeing only the music, not the man!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In your most desperate moments where you crawl on the ground like worms, sometimes you suddenly hear the voice of a savior, the voice of the Music which immediately carries you away to the stars!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: When you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you eliminate this fog? How can you liberate your mind? Just open your mind to the winds of all ideas!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When your mind is foggy, all you need is the winds of wisdom!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Humans have better wings than birds: Human mind is a perfect wing and with this wing we can fly to some farthermost places no bird can ever dream! Yes, mind is a wing; and when it comes to flying man is the most sophisticated bird on earth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don’t have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. This existence problem can be solved by increasing the number of people with free-minds! Because just like the free birds only the free minds can reach the new horizons!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you smile, it means that your mind smiles; when you cry, it means that your mind cries!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every country on Earth needs a progressive Revolution. But these revolutions must come through the Revolutions in the mind, not through Revolutions using Violence!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

World is full of lost lives, full of unfortunate souls ruined in the name of unreasonable religious rules!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is nothing sacred about any beliefs! They are all the apparent inventions of human mind! Beliefs of the billions have nothing to do with the truth! If the world can stop deceiving itself, there will emerge a new world, a world that represents the truth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan