Murat Ildan Quotations Quotes - Page 2

The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!

Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don’t know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!

Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!

He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living!

There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!

A touch may not be always be a love but love is always a touch!

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!

What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!

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

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!

Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!

Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!

Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!

Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!

The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one!

No person can walk all alone because to walk all alone one must have no memories at all from the past!

The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!

Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?

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!

A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!

Let those who live never forget those who died!

No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die!

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!

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

You are sitting! Want to be there? You can’t reach there by not going there! Sitting is the enemy of your dreams!

You want to go to a place where you never lose anything and you keep gaining many things? Go to the Land Of Literature where you gain new paths, new ideas, new lives, new goals, and new souls!

You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn’t matter. What matters is this: Thank to it!

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!

Whatever you do or wherever you go in life, after a while everything you did will look like a dream to you!

Don’t wait for anyone to push you up, push yourself up; don’t wait for anyone to pull you up, pull yourself up! Your best hero, your greatest savior is yourself! The candle of your darkness is hidden within you!

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

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!

Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word ‘waiting’ out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!

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!

You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!

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

Make a journey in such a way that it becomes the dream of others even long after you have gone!

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!

A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!

Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!

When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!

Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!

The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!

If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others!

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.

Tram’s road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path

It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven’t made are the real source of regrets in your life!

If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!

Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!

There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!

A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!

Hell people talk about hell, love people talk about love!

Don’t get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!

On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!