As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!
Mehmet Murat IldanIf you are alive and healty, you must know that this is your greatest success and your greatest chance in life! Celebrate this success with all your heart, with all your gratitude!
Mehmet Murat IldanSweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.
Mehmet Murat IldanWe can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!
Mehmet Murat IldanIgnore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!
Mehmet Murat IldanWhat have you got if you do not have a peaceful corner where you can refresh yourself?
Mehmet Murat IldanDon't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you!
Mehmet Murat IldanCreate a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!
Mehmet Murat IldanBeautiful roads do not always lead to beautiful places! Heaven may be hidden at the end of an ugly road! Do not be deceived by the beginning; try to see the end!
Mehmet Murat IldanNew ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!
Mehmet Murat IldanDo not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!
Mehmet Murat IldanWhat a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!
Mehmet Murat IldanTo defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas!
Mehmet Murat IldanGo to the streets that you have never been to! Wander in the places that you have never known! There is light in the hidden corners of life too! Expand your frontiers and the frontiers will expand you!
Mehmet Murat IldanIt is perfectly possible that a grandfather can have a more scientific mind than his grandchildren! Societies do not always go forward! Sometimes old generations are much luckier!
Mehmet Murat IldanThe simplest secret of reaching any place is to start walking! If people say you can't reach there, close your ears to them and continue walking!
Mehmet Murat IldanDwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!
Mehmet Murat IldanI'm saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won't let anybody enter; they should open it immediately so that we can milk that cow in the name of humanity and thus find the truth.
Mehmet Murat IldanFor someone who doesn't have the key, the door becomes a wall; for someone who has the key, there is no door!
Mehmet Murat IldanFor ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!
Mehmet Murat IldanWhenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!
Mehmet Murat IldanWe cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!
Mehmet Murat IldanWhat makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.
Mehmet Murat IldanGive your thanks to the needle that stuck in your finger, to wooden beam that you hit your head, to bee that stung you on your hand, because they taught you something!
Mehmet Murat IldanIf you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!
Mehmet Murat IldanThere can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!
Mehmet Murat IldanA body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine!
Mehmet Murat IldanIf you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!
Mehmet Murat IldanTo die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?
Mehmet Murat IldanTo be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!
Mehmet Murat IldanNo man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!
Mehmet Murat IldanMuch sooner than we think, comes the end! Science is the only master who can change this.
Mehmet Murat IldanA royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!
Mehmet Murat IldanWe 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 IldanWhatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there, your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish ugliness of the violence!
Mehmet Murat IldanWhen you do different things than others, you will have a different world than others.
Mehmet Murat Ildan