THE MMI QUOTATIONS
THE COLLECTION OF MEHMET MURAT ILDAN QUOTES
SOME OF MY SELECTED
QUOTES - QUOTATIONS - MAXIMS - SAGACIOUS SAYINGS - WISE WORDS - APHORISMS - APOTHEGMS IN ENGLISH
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* Religion is the master of creating dull and dim minds! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Only the clever hills are not jelaous of the high mountains! There is no happiness in the high altitudes. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A wise word of a stupid man is just a myth! A rock cannot emit light like a candle! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* What joy a forest without birds can give? And what happiness a man without jokes can create? (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* To create a kind of balance between a butcher and a sheep, you either take the knife from the butcher or teach the sheep how to use a knife! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Big storms are the humble rehearsals of the Apocalypse. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The ignorant is a house without windows; the intellectual is a window without house! One lives without light; other lives in too much light! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Time is so fast that even ten years later is already a past! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Science is the tongue in the mouth of the universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos. (mehmet Murat ildan)
* Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* I thank to all the shadows and all the darknesses of my life; it is owing to them that I now love the light much more than ever before! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous! Patience is only for the immortals! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years? (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* There is nothing invisible in this universe! There is only our lack of eyesight! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Don't make friends with shadows, because shadows cannot smile! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Peeling an apple with a sword is not something original; it is vulgar! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* On the Night of the Haloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The wisest minds are those who refuse all the negative inevitabilities! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Between Napoleon and His army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but His army cannot create a Napoleon! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Wherever you stop, you will stay there. Don't expect the ground beneath you to move forward! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you start walking to find an honest man, take lots of food and clothes with you as this will be a very long walking! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and to see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In old age, mirror is not a friend! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* My best 'inorganic friend' is science! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, No Master! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* It is often said that it's a man's world! We must change this fact and create this: It's a human's world! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Art is a hot soup in this cold world! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* We are the visitors in the lives of others; we visit them and we disappear! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nigthingales don't know anything about the music! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you have good friends, don't look for treasure because you are already rich; if you have just treasure, look for good friends, because you are still poor! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* It is an utter shame to spend millions on the sanctuaries while millions are dying of hunger! Institutional religion must go to Hell even only for this infamy! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Greedy is the one who is disappointed when he finds silver in gold mine! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because science either walks or runs but art has wings to fly! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Brain is the only sword of the peaceable man and sword is the only brain of the violent man! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life after Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you have decided to change the world, don't read the books about the dimensions of the world! Be like a meteorite; strike the world with your ideas with utter courage and with infinite fearlessness! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* To speak with the shadow, you must learn the language of the darkness! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you have to live in the mud for a while, you must not resist being a frog for a while! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to seperate God from religion and the other is to seperate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won't find something to do and will get bored. What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Don't challenge the world before becoming a big fire; otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Sometimes in life, we reach a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Don't look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain't any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* I have a gold bullion and a 'one additional minute for your life' in my hand, as a gift, if you choose the second one, then I say you are a wise person! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little acount without ability. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* All the World's a Stage, as master Shakespeare said, and All the Other World's a Fake, as master Science said! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Those that can't change even their tootbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you think or fear too much, you can't get too far! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* There are moments too where the mighty dead feels itself desperate! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Whenever you find a good idea, search for the owner to honour him! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus. Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you haven't admired anybody in your whole life, you are the best candidate to be the world's greatest megalomaniac! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace of mind! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* I like the masks; because the real face of the mask is again itself! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* All is flux, nothing stays still, as Heraclitus said. By the time I wrote this, everything has changed in the universe; everything but the taste of the cakes baked at home! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* When you close your mouth, your ears will be bigger. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned. No cage is humane! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If the universe has an end , it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we to keep it in one piece, as a pot! All jobs are ours! Life only gives things and it has no other responsibility! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* It is an incurable act of desperation that men seek for certainty! It is like seeking for an unshakable place inside a shaking ship! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
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