Mehmet ildan, Turkish playwright and novelist (born May 16 in 1965, Elazig)

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When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!
We love the morning, because we know that there will be night soon! We love the night, because we know that there will be morning soon! Who loves the morning if there shall be no night? Who loves the night if there shall be no morning?
A beautiful road does not create enough reason to make a journey on that road, because the road to Hell is often a beautiful road as well!
Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!
Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.
If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang.
If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!
In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies!
Intelligence is the airport; will power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination!
Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good.
We will continue talking about the beauty of the deserts as long as the forests exist on Earth! But when the last forest is gone, no beauty of deserts will remain too!
Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself!
A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?
A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.
Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!
One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.
Gun producer and the killer is the same thing! Be ethical, stop producing guns! Be human, for God’s sake, for there shall never be peace of mind for the wicked!
Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.
Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.
Only the dull don’t doubt!
A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivaled heights.
A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life!
Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!
There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!
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!
"I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI
* If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!
*Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.
*We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate.
A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.
A beautiful idea is a beautiful door; it invites you to enter inside!
A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!
A beautiful road is a beautiful friend; you never get bored with it!
A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!
A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!
A 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!
A calm night is open to all the truths.
A cat who turns her nose up at bread does not deserve meat.
A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!
A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!
A clever quote opens new paths in the minds of the clever!
A completely secure life can be found only outside the life!
A coward can be a hero, but a hero cannot be a coward.
A day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day!
A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion!
A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion!
A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion!
A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression!
A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!
A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!
A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.
A gate to nature is a gate to heaven!
A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!
A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!
A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!
A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!
A good heart is a beautiful home where you can always find peace!
A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.
A good man can never be the enemy of someone; if he did, he ain't a good man!
A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!
A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!
A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader’s mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like a wind! All men need winds!
A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!
A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can’t see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!
A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!
A hand with a sword is a dirty hand; a man with a gun is a coward man.
A horrible night might be hidden in a beautiful morning!
A house without security cannot be a home!
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!
A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!
A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!
A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!
A leader without a vision is just a letter without a stamp; it can never reach his destination.
A leader without vision is a stamped letter without address; it can never reach its destination.
A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!
A lion or a tiger does not need bodyguards; only the weak and the coward need warriors to protect him! A king needs an army and soldiers, because he is weak and powerless. Wherever you see someone protected; there, you will see either the weak or the coward! Strong fist does not require defenders! Shining sword is not in need of protection!
A little happy house is the strongest castle in this whole universe!
A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy!
A locked big door always kneels down in front of its little key! Every giant has a weak side!
A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!
A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!
A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!
A man who gets up very early creates a new day within the same day!
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!
A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!
A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!
A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!
A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!
A man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter!
A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!
A man's greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!
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.
A mortal life with love is endlessly superior to an immortal life without love.
A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!
A night without stars is a night wasted.
A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected!
A place where you can see a good view is also a good place to sit and dream!
A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!
A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!
A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!
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!
A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!
A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms!
A 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!
A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!
A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!
A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!
A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!
A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!
A tram cannot discover every road! To discover every road, one must leave the predetermined roads!
A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!
A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!
A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!
A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!
A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!
A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!
Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!
Alexander the Great once said that ‘I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!’ What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!
All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don’t get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!
All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!
All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!
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!
All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!
All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!
All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!
All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!
All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!
All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!
All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way!
All the donkeys I knew had small ears!
All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.
All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!
All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock!
All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!
All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!
All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities!
All the World's a Stage, as master Shakespeare said, and All the Other World's a Fake, as master Science said!
All truths can be changed! Put this brave idea to the centre of your beliefs! All truths can be changed!
All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe!
All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep!
Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don’t see an abominable creature on it!
Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast!
Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!
Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything!
Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!
An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.
An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target!
An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!
An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!
An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe!
An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect’s point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!
An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!
An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king’s chair!
An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!
An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!
Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!
Any man who pursues for peace is a remarkable man!
Any religion with a sword is not a religion; it is merely an army of assassins! A real man of God carries only flowers in his hands!
Any shoe which protects your feet in a hard road is a beautiful shoe!
Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!
Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don’t panic!
Anything easy teaches you nothing! To learn something, have some difficulties!
Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!
Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream.
Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky?
Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.
Archimedes once said that ‘Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.’ There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!
Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!
Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!
Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet!
Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Are you some dullish cattle in the herd or a wise owl in the forest? Look at the mirror, what are you?
Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!
Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men! Learn their life stories; they will lead you to the light! Buddha will lead you to the light; Gandhi will lead you to the light! Men of wider horizons will broaden our own horizons!
Are you happy? It doesn’t matter! Are you unhappy? It doesn’t matter! What matters is whether you exist or not! Are you laughing? It doesn’t matter! Are you crying? It doesn’t matter! What matters is whether you exist or not!
Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!
Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!
Art is a hot soup in this cold world!
Art is beyond the enmity! That’s why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!
As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!
As a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!
As long as a man has a golden heart, it does not matter whether he has green blood or blue skin!
As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!
As long as you don’t stop producing guns, you can’t be a decent country!
As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.
As long as you stop producing guns, you can’t be a decent country!
As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!
As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!
Ask the river, where it comes from? You will get no answer. Ask the river, where is it going? You will get no answer, because the river lives inside this very moment; neither in the past nor in the future, in this very moment only!
At the beginning, all roads seem endless; but they are not!
At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life’s value jumps to infinity!
At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That’s why man can be born even at the age of eighty!
Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.
Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!
Ave Dolce Vita, Rex Regum! Hail Sweet Life, King of Kings! We love you and we believe in you!
Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain't a man surely!
Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!
Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!
Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!
Be clever and do not build walls, because in the future they will bring only shame to you!
Be it a house, be it a car or be it a little motorbike, there is always a place for the family!
Be just to everyone and don’t look for an honour greater than this!
Be like a flower, give hope to the world!
Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!
Be silent when you are criticised so that you can hear the critiques well!
Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up!
Be the man of no one! Instead, be the man of truth, only the truth!
Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!
Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!
Beautiful places are not for sleeping; they are for staying awake to watch the beauties!
Beautiful 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!
Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world!
Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!
Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion!
Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!
Behind every success, there lies a magical word: Dare!
Behind your every bad fate, almost always there lie your own stupid mistakes! Behind your every good fate, almost always there lie your own clever deeds! Skies have nothing whatsoever to do with your fate!
Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!
Between a stupid fascist and an intelligent fascist, prefer the intelligent one, because there is always a chance to persuade the clever one about the mistakes of his actions! There is no such a chance for stupid and ignorant fascist!
Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!
Between the truth and the faith, we must always choose the first one.
Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!
Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!
Beyond the limits there lies other limits.
Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!
Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!
Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!
Big storms create big captains and they destroy the little ones!
Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!
Birdcage is a shame!
Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!
Blessed are the ones who have enemies, for they have a vital reason to be better in every way.
Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!
Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young!
Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!
Brain is the only sword of the peaceable man and sword is the only brain of the violent man!
Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere.
Bridge shortens the roads; wisdom does the same!
Bridge shortens the roads; wisdom does the same!
Bridge shortens the roads; wisdom does the same!
Bridge shortens the roads; wisdom does the same!
Bridges are happy, because they do not judge those who come to them.
Buffaloes are stronger than the lions, but they often fall prey to lions because they hesitate to be courageous and thus run away! Be determined or accept being destroyed!
Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!
Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!
By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!
By not replying to the stupid, you can save so much time in your life!
By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!
By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.
Candle needs darkness to show his talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it will disappear when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.
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.
Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!
Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don’t use others! Don’t behave like a king, don’t behave like a queen! Be humble!
Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!
Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.
Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.
Chiromancy is a stupidity! No man’s fate is ever written on nowhere! In this universe, all the roads are our fate; all the stones and all the flowers are waiting for us! All the pages and all the days of the future are empty! On the roads to future, no one has footprints; we create them through walking!
Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!
City is a madhouse! Don’t stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!
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!
Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.
Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate!
Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things!
Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.
Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!
Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!
Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!
Courage makes the things easier!
Courage refuses frontiers!
Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!
Create 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!
Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!
Crowds prevent you to see the infinite horizons; get rid of the crowds and open your horizons.
Crying has no potential for solving the problems!
Dalai Lama once said that ‘My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.’ This is a great thought! Humanity has never seen and will never see any religion better than this! Seek no religion other than the religion of kindness!
Dare! Behind every success, there lies this magical word!
Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth!
Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!
Darkness uses light as bait on its hook!
Days and rivers are the same; they both flow to the unknown oceans!
Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.
Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness.
Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!
Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!
Decreasing the budget on the space exploration is nothing but a great treason to humanity! Space exploration is closely related to our very existence! Cut the budget on other things and increase the budget on the space exploration! Think great; if you do not think great, universe annihilates you!
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.
Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!
Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!
Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!
Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!
Do 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!
Do not always live in your world; visit the worlds of others too!
Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!
Do not boast because you have beliefs; don’t forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!
Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!
Do not complain about the length of the road! What will you do when the road finishes? Let it continue!
Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!
Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them!
Do not focus on being happy, focus on doing something useful; afterwards, happiness will flow towards you!
Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!
Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.
Do not hold an idea tightly! There is always a possibility that what you believe might be wrong! Hold your ideas loosely so that you can easily get rid of them once you have realised that they are wrong!
Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!
Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!
Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you!
Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!
Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!
Do the difficult thing; you can then have something that you can be truly proud of!
Do the things you want to do; if you don’t, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!
Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!
Dog becomes a good friend with man whether the man himself is good or not!
Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!
Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!
Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!
Doing of good is the best temple ever built!
Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!
Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!
Don't challenge the world before becoming a big fire; otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits!
Don't die for the country! Don't die for the love! Don't die for anything! Always choose life! Under every circumstance this is your real duty in life!
Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.
Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!
Don't look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain't any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock!
Don't make friends with shadows; because shadows cannot smile!
Don’t be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!
Don’t be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life!
Don’t be like a train; don’t travel on the same path! Thousands of different paths are waiting for you to walk! Don’t be like a train!
Don’t be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!
Don’t give your loved one a flower, because it too has a loved one! Let the flowers live!
Don’t see anything impossible! This simple philosophy will enable many things to be possible!
Don’t swear at your past; you couldn’t existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now!
Don’t talk me about religion! Don’t talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you!
Don’t try to be consistent; it is a waste of time. Just try to update your truth with the real truth!
Don’t wait for anything; simply because what you are waiting for may never come!
Doors to beautiful things do not remain open forever. Be fast to enter inside!
Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!
Ducks are sweet, crows are intelligent; but I prefer dolphins because they are both sweet and intelligent.
Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!
During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!
Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!
Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!
Dwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected!
Dwarfs have also the right to despise the giants, because giants too can be defeated!
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!
Earth can happily live without us, but we can no way live without earth!
Earth is our only citadel in the universe; but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle!
Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!
Eating together happily can best be crowned by the vegetarian foods.
Educate the children in your country well, and then sit and watch the rise of your country like a Sun on the horizon!
Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!
Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music!
Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!
Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!
Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths!
Eternal brightness is as scary as the eternal darkness.
Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!
Even if you are the Sun itself, don’t be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!
Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!
Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a sound way of thinking.
Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!
Even just seconds ahead is unknown; even just seconds after is open to infinite possibilities.
Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!
Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth!
Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!
Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!
Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world!
Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!
Every door is a door opening to another door!
Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.
Every heart has a door; knock it gently! If the door is not opened, leave gently!
Every house takes its light from the happiness inside the house! No happiness, no light!
Every journey will take us to somewhere even if at the beginning it looks like taking us to nowhere!
Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!
Every king needs a counsellor, a counsellor who is never afraid of the king.
Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!
Every leaf knows that time is very short. All life must be lived before the autumn comes!
Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!
Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!
Every long travel changes man!
Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.
Every man is a door; when the door is closed, just search for the key gently! Remember that every door has a key!
Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!
Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.
Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!
Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!
Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!
Every morning brings thousands of opportunities; and thousands of perils too! Life is open to all the possibilities that a man can not even imagine!
Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!
Every powerful storm will help us to make a stronger shelter!
Every queen is a woman, but not every woman is a queen.
Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment!
Every road has an end. Choose the one that worth travelling!
Every single moment of reality instantly turns into memories; reality can not be caught; we can only catch memories.
Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!
Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff 'sweet hope' from it.
Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind!
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, in the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
Every time I see a smiling person on earth, I feel the warmth of the Sun in the sky.
Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.
Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!
Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!
Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!
Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!
Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!
Every tree is an angel!
Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.
Every weed's fate is to bow in front of the wind!
Every weed's fate is to bow in front of the wind!
Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called ‘You and I’ planet!
Everyday some people discover you! What good things have you got for them? Just like preparing a soup, prepare good things and keep them ready for the people who discover you!
Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!
Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are your truths, then you must increase your level to approach to the real truth! At the position of low level intelligence and consciousness, it is impossible to see the real truth!
Everything cannot be possible without thinking that everything is possible!
Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.
Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!
Everything needs a mirror to see what to change and what to love in itself, even a rock or a duck, everything!
Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!
Everywhere we see shadowy minds, cloudy brains! World needs more light of wisdom!
Evolution created a violent order where beings eat other beings. Till we change this order and create a harmony between all beings, there shall be no real peace on Earth.
Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!
Face the truth or the truth will face you!
Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.
Fakir bir çocuğun ayakkabısındaki büyük bir delik, onun içinde yaşadığı toplumu mahkûm etmek için en basit kanıttır.
Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.
Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!
Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!
Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!
Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing!
Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!
Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out!
Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!
Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!
Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.
Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness
Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!
Flexibility is one of the main roads leading to happiness.
Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can’t protect themselves against the evil!
Flowers are like the sweet babies of the nature; they make us to smile.
Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!
Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!
Flowers represent hope for us; but we do not represent hope for them! Let us keep the flowers in the soil; no plucking!
Fools are the gift of the God to glorify the wise!
Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!
For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!
For a great willpower, no road has length!
For a haughty man, all roads lead to arrogance!
For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.
For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life!
For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!
For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!
For a nation to be known as warrior is a shame! For a nation to be known as peaceful is an honour! Violence brings shame, killing brings disgrace; peacefulness brings honour, nonviolence brings esteem!
For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!
For a shining mind and a shining body, you need nature, not gilding or silvering!
For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!
For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.
For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!
For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!
For God’s sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things!
For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!
For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.
For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this!
For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this!
For mankind, universe is a battle arena against universe; there is no room for crying!
For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!
For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!
For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.
For someone who doesn’t have the key, the door becomes a wall; for someone who has the key, there is no door!
For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!
For the hard roads, you must have good shoes! And your brain and your luck are your best shoes ever! ~
For the ignorant, even the most stupid things can be accepted as the most perfect! They can easily declare a blockheaded as a genius! Their opinions must always be considered as invalid and must be ignored!
For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!
For the people whose minds are in the past, even a heavy rain cannot bring them to the present time!
For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the roof!
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!
For your enemies, keep the door open forever!
Forest is the best port of the wise man!
Forest who is in love with fire will wear black wedding gown in her wedding!
Forgetting is a blessing; remembering is a blessing! We are lucky that we can forget; we are lucky that we can remember!
Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!
Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the sick masters!
Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light!
Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!
Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!
From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!
From whichever direction or from whoever the light comes to you, always welcome it!
Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!
Future is an enemy territory; we cannot know what will happen to us over there!
Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.
Gandiji says where there is love there is life. We can also say where there is hate there is hell!
General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability.
General Napoleon says that ‘Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.’ Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don’t be opportunist; don’t benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!
Genius is both the sail and the wind; that’s why he continues his journey without stopping!
Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!
Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!
Give 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!
Go to a forest and kiss the stream, kiss the tree, kiss the light leaking through the trees! Give your love to those that give life to you!
Go to forest to meet the wise green friends!
Go 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!
God generously helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!
God has not any Holy Book; but Man has many Holy Book writers! Producing Holy Books is a cosmic crime against God! God has not spoken yet! He has been silent for billions of years, because He is out of this universe!
God helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!
God is a snooker player, that's why all the planets are turning!
God is religion; religion is God! There is no need ever for holy books, for holy rules or for so called holy envoys! God is religion; religion is God!
God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!
God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!
Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn’t matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge!
Good heart is the best religion; its light is the most powerful light.
Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!
Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them!
Great man is still a great man even at the bottom of a well and a little man is still a little man even at the top of a mountain!
Great master Lao Tzu says that ‘The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.’ Giving is indeed a very good source of happiness! One of the best treasures a man can give to someone is a good and sound idea; because birds can ascend into the sky only with wings, and men, only with good and sound ideas!
Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.
Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!
Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!
Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!
Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak!
Happiness in nature is a double happiness; sorrow in nature is a half sorrow!
Happiness is often somewhere near us, not in the far places!
Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.
Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.
Happy moments are the times to be stupid, not be genius!
Hard roads are not opened by themselves; they are opened by some brave people!
Hard winds and strong ideas have powerful muscles; they can knock you down easily!
Hardly you can see someone on the streets of truth.
Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys!
Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies!
Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!
Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!
Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!
Have you got a local mind? Broaden it! Have you got an international mind? Broaden it! Have you got a universal mind? It is not enough, because there are other universes. Broaden it! Broaden your mind till you get a multi-universal mind! And yet, this is not enough too! Broaden it! Leave your village; leave your city; leave your country; leave the earth; leave the universe; leave all the universes! Don’t let your mind to cast anchor in any port! Narrow mind is the greatest enemy of the truth! The best mind is the one which has no frontiers!
Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don’t worry; even if you can’t find it, a new hope will come and find you!
Have you lost your way? Don’t be sad; be happy, because you will see new places, places that you have never been to! It is magical to lose the way!
Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man!
He who believes in the fate accepts the collar in his neck!
He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!
He who does not walk against the arrows cannot talk about the strength of his shield!
He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!
He who is neither afraid of the wolves nor hurts the lambs, He is called a great man!
He who laughs and loves is always rich; he who sulks and hates is always poor!
He who observes the infinite horizons will see the dangers before others.
Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent.
Heaven is where the reasonable people are!
Hell is a hell of a lie! God is not a torturer!
Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.
Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!
Help your brother; and as regards helping, everyone is your brother!
Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!
Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create...
Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!
Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God!
Here is the best wish for the new year: Let there be more freedom of thought throughout the world! Fields need rain; truths need freedom of thought!
Here is the biggest truth about the Universal Order: There is no order!
Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!
High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.
High positions are full of low people!
History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!
History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!
Horizons will not come to you; you must go to the horizons!
Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man’s invention! It is the making up of human benefit!
How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!
How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!
How long we live is much more important than how well we live!
How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!
How much weight you can carry in your mind will determine how far you can go in life!
How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!
How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!
How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!
However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.
However small you might be, if necessary, struggle against the mountain of evils however big it may be!
However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!
Human history’s the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions are man-made! And this childish discovery will enable the pious to make an intellectual jump in upwards direction. The devout will turn into a progressive man and the history will flow faster in the progressive direction.
Human mind can grasp everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything!
Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!
I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!
I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion.
I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!
I don't like religion; I don't like anything or anybody which tells me what to do! We must take orders only from our own intelligence!
I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth.
I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!
I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself!
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!
I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!
I have no boss but my conscience.
I have no faith at all in believers, because they are so far from the truths! Have respect only to those who are close to the truths!
I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!
I have searched for my forehead to find a secret writing about my fate and I found no trace of destiny, but my very own decisions!
I hope one day God will reveal all the truths to people that He has never sent any Holy Book, nor did He create anything but chaos!
I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.
I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the profounder the person, the greater the nation.
I know what I want in life: I want the life itself!
I like my shadow; it reminds me that I exist.
I like the masks; because the real face of the mask is again itself!
I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!
I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.
I recognize only the Holy Pilgrimage of Science to the Land of Truths! All other pilgrimages are nothing but touristic trips!
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!
I will tell you something that you don’t want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no beauty in dying! Death is always ugly! The beauty of autumn is just an illusion, my friend! Wake up and see the real truth! See the crying leaves!
I would love to buy a piece of land in the Moon, just to feel very farsighted, extremely optimistic and absolutely crazy!
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!
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.
Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!
Ideas can be killed only by other ideas!
If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!
If a fish feels sad when a fisherman’s boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!
If a frog becomes a king, he will make the whole kingdom muddy!
If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden!
If a king’s adviser is wiser than him, let him be the king!
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!
If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!
If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!
If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?
If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!
If a man's shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!
If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man’s character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.
If a street has a spirit, no matter how narrow it is, we can breathe comfortably over there.
If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!
If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!
If a truth will be accepted with a million repetitions, repeat it million times!
If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth!
If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!
If courage will cause your death, do not hesitate a second to be coward! Existenz Über Alles!
If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it!
If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!
If God ever chooses a house to live on earth, it will be the House of Science, not the House of Religion!
If God is playing hide and seek with us, I must confess that I am quite bored with this childish game!
If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!
If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!
If honesty was like water that people couldn’t live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather!
If I find God's mobile number, I wouldn't call Him, that would be too expensive!..
If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!
If love and death did not exist, tears would not exist as well!
If man can fly, it won’t be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!
If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!
If possible, avoid being a bubble; for a bubble, even the gentlest touch is fatal.
If rising makes you famous, don’t give up rising, but find a safe port where you can be unreachable!
If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!
If some things aren’t going well, do something; never wait for the things to be ok by themselves! Do something; change the direction, change the parameters, change the criteria, change anything you wish to change! To change is to create a new destiny! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies; change is your instrument to switch from one destiny to another! Remember, you have thousands of different destinies!
If somebody insists to be your enemy, you insist more to be his friend!
If somebody praises you; change the topic!
If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you,’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!
If something looks difficult, it is more fantastic to do it! Stay away from the easy things!
If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?
If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!
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!
If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is!
If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully!
If the truth is with you, let anything else be against you! You will win! If the truth is not with you but everything else is on your side, it doesn’t matter, you will lose!
If the truth is with you, no power can knock you down!
If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off!
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!
If the view is very beautiful, do not sit and watch; go to the view, be in the view!
If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!
If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!
If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there!
If there is a strong will, there will always be a path even in the middle of precipices!
If there is moonlight outside, don’t stay inside! If there is candle inside, don’t stay outside! Moments of romanticism are too valuable to be missed!
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!
If there was a bridge between the Sun and the Earth, that would be a wonderful road to hell!
If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!
If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that flu!..
If there were no mountains, humanity would be much lazier! Challenges make people hardworking!
If they offer giving you a willpower or a thousand ways, choose the willpower, because with it, you can create a million ways!
If this universe is the House of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns!
If tomorrow will be the end of the world, I will spend my today by looking at the pictures of my past!
If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won’t go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!
If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!
If we lose all our sweet memories, it means we are dead even if we are alive!
If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been created by the random evolutionary process. There is no goodness, there is no justice and there is no intelligence in here. We are living in a primitive and flawed order.
If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!
If you are a fish, stay away from the fishhook; if you are a lover, stay away from the suspicion.
If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!
If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!
If you are a member of a religion which has violence, killings and invading other countries in its history, it is a great shame! Leave it! If a religion is peaceful and innocent, you can never find violence in its history! No good faith carries sword!
If you are a real perfectionist, you can’t finish any job! We, the mortals, we don’t have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!
If you are a student, try to be a teacher; if you are a teacher, try to be a student!
If you are a very intelligent person, you will see this: All the realities in the universe can be changed!
If you are afraid of the sunlight, you ain’t a good man!
If you are after truth, leave your cave!
If you are after truth, let your shadow be the only shadow around you! Stay away from the crowds!
If 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!
If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows!
If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!
If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.
If you are happy, don't analyse your happiness, don't ask questions and don't even think about it; just live it to the fullest!
If you are honest, you are in the minority; if you are clever, you are in the minority; if you do not believe in any religious craps, you are in the minority! If you are not in the herd, you are in the minority! What a glorious privilege to be in this kind of minorities!
If you are in a deep dark well with no rope to climb, hold on to the hope, because it is also a strong rope!
If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one!
If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!
If you are living in a beautiful house surrounded by beautiful environment, you know not where to stay, inside or outside?
If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!
If you are not discovered yet by the people, that is good, you can work better; if you are discovered already by the people, that is good, you can share your work better! It is good to be in the shadow, it is good to be in the light!
If you are not lucky enough, you can’t reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need ‘luck’ to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!
If you are not rising with ethichs, you will sink with every rise!
If you are not the member of any religion, it means that you are the member of truth!
If you are strong enough, you can enjoy even in the middle of a storm!
If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you will miss many truths!
If you are sure of tomorrow, there is no fool greater than you!
If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you.
If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!
If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!
If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.
If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person!
If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!
If you can live the beauty of the misty mornings, you are the king, you are the queen!
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!
If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!
If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!
If you can’t control it, you will be the toy of your own mind!
If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!
If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless!
If you do not enter inside, what use the door to heaven can have?
If you do not feel the bitter cold inside you when you look at the poor trembling out of cold, it means you are lack of compassion; in other words, you are lack of everything!
If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place!
If you do not like an idea, challenge it with a better one!
If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!
If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?
If you don’t like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don’t like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!
If you don’t trust either the captain or the ship, there remains only one thing for safety: Trusting the storm!
If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man!
If you ever meet a higher being, do not worship it; only try to be its friend! Worship is primitiveness and no higher and developed being likes worshipping!
If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos!
If you feel stronger and good when the weather is sunny and weaker and bad when the weather is cloudy, then it means your willpower is not powerful yet!
If you find a fork on your way when you are in need of a spoon, take it to give someone who is in need of a fork!
If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!
If you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests!
If you have a beautiful view, you don’t need a good wine to feel dizzy.
If you have a complex life, make it simple; if you have a simple life, continue it that way!
If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.
If you have a footprint, be happy, because it means that you aren’t a shadow!
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!
If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!
If you have a light, share it with people; if you have a darkness, share it with the Sun!
If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won’t change!
If you have a target, you will walk more lively even in the middle of a desert!
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!
If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!
If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!
If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!
If you have feet, walk! If you have wings, fly! Whatever you have, use them! Don't let them to rust!
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!
If you have good neighbours, you can bear living in a bad cottage; if you have bad neighbours, you can’t bear living even in a good palace!
If you have live in the mud for a while, you must not resist being a frog for a while!
If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!
If you have the power to resurrect the dead man, firstly, be sure that he is a good man!
If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!
If you haven't admired anybody in your whole life, you are the best candidate to be the world's greatest megalomaniac!
If you haven’t read Shakespeare’s Hamlet yet, it means that you haven’t reached the summit of the literature yet!
If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!
If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good!
If you leave a good trace behind you, that trace will continue its walk even if you stop!
If you let a stupid to shape your country, you will surely get an amorphous country!
If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!
If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!
If you love the life very much, you will see that everything is shining, everything is sparkling!
If you love the life very much, you will see that everything will be shining, everything will be sparkling!
If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!
If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly!
If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!
If you see a lonely homeless, ask this question: Where the hell the society is? And here is the answer: It is rotten and enjoying somewhere!
If you see a lonely tree in the middle of nowhere, plant a tree next to it!
If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!
If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!
If you think or fear too much, you can't get far!
If you think the memories of the past too much, you will miss creating the new ones!
If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married!..
If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds!
If you want to be a true revolutionist, you must first quit chewing gum, because revolution requires high seriousness!
If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear!
If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!
If you want to call a man to account, don’t do it when he is weak; call him to account when he is strong! Cowards choose the first way and the valiant choose the second way.
If you want to create a high-society, you must give high things to the public! Show the public eagle; public will be an eagle! Show the public a rat, public will be a rat! Whatever you give to the public, public will take that! To create a high-society, you must give high things to the public!
If you want to defeat a country, defeat it with your ideas! If you want to defeat your enemies, defeat them with your ideas! Let your only sword and gun be your sharp and powerful ideas!
If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy!
If you want to give an advice to someone, you must first be somebody.
If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don’t ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!
If you want to know how fast the time is, here is the answer: Tomorrow is already a history!
If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!
If you want to own the Sun, you must first understand candle.
If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!
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!
If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!
If you want to shine over the world, first let the wisdom shines over you!
If your culture is not peaceful, throw it from your life! If your religion is not peaceful, throw it from your life! Anything which is not peaceful is worthless! Throw it from your life!
If your friend goes to a far place, that far place comes close to you!
If your intelligence and your luck are on your side, you don’t need angels!
If your mind is tired, go get work in the fields!
If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant!
If your thoughts are universal, you visit every house, every window, like the Moon on the sky!
If your war is for your existence, fight it right to the end!
If your way is not the way of the science, then your way is not the way! Change it! If your way is not the way of the compassion and love, then your way is not the way! Change it!
If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.
Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!
Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!
Ignore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!
In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!
In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!
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!
In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.
In a puddle, ask for a pool; in a pool, ask for a lake; in a lake, ask for an ocean. This is the way for a frog to reach the stars!
In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!
In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.
In a very cold night, even houses want to have houses of their own to enter inside them and feel warm!
In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing!
In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag up the people who are trying to drag you down!
In autumn, don't go to jewellers to see gold; go to the parks!
In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!
In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!
In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success.
In every different house, the same things are spoken, the same lies are said, the same dreams are dreamed!
In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!
In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!
In every height, man feels low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied! ~ (Mehmet Murat ildan)
In fall, God is remembered; in rise, forgotten.
In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice!
In hard times, gold is a good friend and good friend is gold!
In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!
In life, everything awaits in the shadows for the suitable time to come out! All waits silently in the nooks! Observe the shadows and the nooks to guess what will happen!
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!
In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have!
In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!
In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!
In old age, mirror is not a friend!
In our dreams, we can't see anything that we haven't put it there!
In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others!
In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!
In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!
In the bed of suspicion, no cushion can make a man to sleep
In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!
In the dark days of your life, you will need the wings of hope to continue flying.
In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember!
In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.
In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.
In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man’s hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!
In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!
In the garden of existence, there exists two beautiful roses: Music and love.
In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.
In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!
In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!
In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!
In the Land of Romance, cheap candles are more valuable than ingots of gold.
In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!
In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun!
In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms!
In the middle of a wheat field under a beautiful sunshine anybody can be happy; the important thing is to be happy in the middle of a storm under the darkest clouds!
In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!
In the middle of the night, if you have decided to do something good for the world, don’t wait for the morning to come!
In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!
In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!
In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!
In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!
In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!
In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!
In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink!
In the very darkness of a stupid society, even a little candle deserves a great honour!
In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will always pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle!
In this chaotic world where everything is moving and turning, one's partner should be like the centre of a wheel which never moves and always remains still.
In this vast universe, we are condemned to feel tiny; megalomaniac is the one who cannot feel the true dimensions of this universe!
In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!
In times of war, don't touch the guns; stay as a human! Always refuse to be a killer!
In times to resist, do not step aside; stay solid like a statue! In times to step aside, do not resist; be flexible like a snake!
In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.
In winter, play with the snow; in summer, play with the Sun! Do not wait for something to come; everything is already here! In autumn, play with the leaves, in spring, play with the flowers! In summer, don’t wait for the winter; in winter, don’t wait for the summer! Everything is already here, in this present time you live in!
In winter, you fed the birds; and in summer, do the same thing! In winter, you gave them bread; and in summer, give them water!
In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.
In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!
Inconsistency is a great door for the change and for the progression! Never hesitate to be inconsistent!
Industry of war is the industry of shame
Inside a crowd, you have no right to complain about the crowdedness, because you are already a part of it!
Inside a dark well, everyman’s favourite colour is blue!
Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!
Inside the fogs, you think better and thus you see better!
Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!
Instead of decaying in a safe harbour, sail to the unsafe oceans!
Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!
Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question!
It does matter not if the road ends; find another road!
It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To bring the forest to the people, to the cities! To bring heaven to the hell!
It is a source of happiness to see the elderly working in their garden or looking from their windows! It is so good to see them alive and well!
It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that man has no soul; he has only 'body' and 'mind'. Man's unshakable belief on the soul will not change this scientific truth! No belief can be higher than the scientific truths! Man can be born, can walk and work and can think without owning a mysterious and an immaterial soul! The soullessness of the man is a great tragedy both for the man and for the religion. But Man, contrary to the religion, will come out with triumph from this tragedy.
It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them!
It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason!
It is always possible to be happy by ignoring the sufferings of the millions! People with high conscience can never attain this kind of insensitive happiness!
It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.
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!
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.
It is both theoretically and practically very impossible to have a happy ending in life as long as death exists.
It is easy to sit and it is easy not to think; you do the opposite: You walk and think!
It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.
It is impossible that a fish doesn’t carry any smell of the sea and a real love, of the melancholy!
It is impossible to carry everyone you know to your future! Most will remain in your past!
It is impossible to catch today; it flows out from our palms! It is impossible to catch tomorrow; it flows out from our palms! We cannot hold them; they constantly run away from us!
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!
It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!
It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes!
It is not important to be a believer, it is not important to be religious, because there are billons around the world already! But it is important to be compassionate, it is important to be ethical, because there are only tens of thousands around the world, obviously not many!
It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!
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!
It is often said that we are just a moment in time! In that case, here is the best challenge for man: To change this! To be two moments in time; three moments in time; four moments in time; to be in the whole of the time!
It is ok if you talk to a rock, but it is not ok if you expect any reply!
It is only the quietest one who can hear all the voices of the world; only the shadows can see all the lights!
It 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!
It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!
It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!
It is up to man to be an angel or a devil! You become whatever you choose to be!
It is winter time! Feed the birds! Teach your children to feed the birds! Request your neighbour to feed the birds! Encourage your friends to feed the birds!
It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!
It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too!
It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!
It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!
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!
It would be nice to find a ‘planet of trees and birds’ in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!
Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!
John F. Kennedy says: ‘Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.’ I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don’t leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!
Josef Stalin once said that ‘Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.’ Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs to the callous rocks! A grateful dog is a being much more developed than an ungrateful man!
Just after they exist, all men start travelling; some towards the land of the truth, some towards the land of the stupidity! Most men are on their way to the second land!
Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.
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!
Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!
Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!
Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!
Just like the submarines, deep men are also unaffected by the storms!
King is not a happy man, but a happy man is a king!
Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales
Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!
Kings kill; jesters don't; therefore the jesters of the kings are more valuable than the kings!
Kings need the world, but the world does not need the kings! Let them disappear like the horrible ghosts of the nightmares!
Knowing the right thing is wonderful; practicing the right thing is even more wonderful; and the most wonderful thing is that helping others to practice the right thing!
Knowledge can protect you much better than a strong castle!
Knowledge is the only water which makes one thirsty when it is drunk.
Lake is jealous of mountain; mountain is jealous of lake!
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!
Learning must be like a house with its door always wide open; let everything enters the house!
Leave your coast to discover your true self!
Leave your fears; you will then have a better life!
Let me tell you something big: Give importance to little things!
Let the cats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of mousetraps! Let the rats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of dogs!
Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet.
Let the ideas clash, let the swords sleep!
Let the people discover you! You might have the key of the locked doors in their lives! Open yourself to the world; you might be the magic the world needs!
Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!
Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!
Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!
Let us free all the animals in the zoos to show them that we are not animals!..
Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!
Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!
Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!
Let your works not be interrupted by the stupidities happening in your own country! Work and walk on your true path ignoring any kind of distractions! Abstract yourself from all the primitivenesses surrounding you! Concentrate on your work!
Life begins only when we cross the borders and not definitely before!
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!
Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!
Life is a dream and autumn is a dream within dream!
Life is a foggy road. You may come across anything on the road.
Life is a gift of God, of the God of Coincidence!
Life is a house with millions of doors. Here is a good strategy of life: Open the doors, open as much as you can, open as much as possible, open the doors!
Life is a miracle; walking is a miracle; watching the sunset is a miracle; everything is a miracle, because existence is a miracle!
Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody!
Life is meaningless; man's biggest challenge is to make it meaningful!
Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!
Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!
Like a garbage truck, we need a 'lie-truck' which will collect lies from everyone's houses every morning, even every hour!
Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!
Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!
Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!
Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!
Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!
Little details have special talents in creating big problems!
Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!
Live your life not to win golden medals but to win golden hearts.
Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.
Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!
Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain’t any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!
Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!
Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.
Love all the seasons, because every season has its own treasures! Winter does not own the treasures of the spring; the spring does not own the treasures of the winter! If you know only the autumn, you are poor; if you know only the summer, you are poor! To be rich, love all the seasons and live all the seasons! Wise man is the one who knows all the treasures of all the seasons!
Love creates bridges much more than all the engineers of the world!
Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!
Love is the rehearsal of Paradise.
Love the horses, but don’t ride on them! Riding the horses is a culture, a wrong culture!
Love with freedom is superior to both the freedom without love and the love without freedom!
Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!
Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!
Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days!
Make a habit to remember God in your perfectly beautiful days, because in bad days even atheists do remember Him!
Make changes in your life; don’t wear the same roads out, start walking on the new paths!
Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!
Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!
Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!
Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!
Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature
Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!
Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!
Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!
Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!
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!
Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm to people or to produce art and science; or you can use it for chattering or for deceiving people! By looking at the human history, we can easily say that man is guilty of wasting his energy mostly for stupid things!
Man is never out of range of surprises!
Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!
Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!
Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!
Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!
Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!
Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.
Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!
Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.
Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!
Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!
Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life!
Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness!
Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!
Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!
Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in the universe!
Man! What are you? Who are you? Just a shadow in this universe! You always forget this and the truth will always remind you what you really are! Do you want to be a real thing, not just a shadow? Improve your science ten thousand times; improve your science hundred thousand times! If you can’t improve your science, you will remain as a miserable shadow!
Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says ‘Here are the rules,’ do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!
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!
Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!
Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace of mind!
Master Michelangelo once said that ‘I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.’ This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!
Master of Life is the person who is best at keeping the brutal scars of life to a minimum!
Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei; light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow!
Master Seneca says that ‘No one can wear a mask for very long.’ This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!
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!
Max Lucado says that ‘A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.’ That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!
May God protect us from all the religions!
May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!
Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!
Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!
Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists!
Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain!
Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links of the chain before respecting the chain!
Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!
Mistisizm renkli ve cazibelidir; fakat eğer gerçeğin peşindeysen, bilim en iyi yoldur.
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!
Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!
Moments of compassion are the most holy moments of life.
Moments of solitude are the holiest moments to think wisely!
Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with his wisdom!
More gates you open, more worlds you discover! More worlds you discover, more gates are opened!
Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!
Mortal man! You’ve wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!
Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!
Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!
Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!
Move at a snail's pace or walk with the speed of a turtle or run like a rabbit! Just move; forget about the speed and just move ahead!
Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!
Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!
Much sooner than we think, comes the end! Science is the only master who can change this.
Muhteşem bir doğal manzara pembe bir perdedir. Perdeyi aç; orada en korkunç hayat mücadelelerini göreceksin! Doğanın güzelliği, doğanın gaddarlıklarını unutmamız için Tanrı’nın bize verdiği bir rüşvet olabilir mi?
Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!
Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!
Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?
My best inorganic friend is science!
My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.
My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!
My name will live forever, but I should not care about this at all, because I am not my name and my name is not me!
Mystery keeps man alive; it opens his ears, his eyes, and his mind! Find a mystery and try to solve it!
Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon!
Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!
Nature is doing wonderful things for you; what are you doing for the nature?
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.
Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God!
Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!
Never hesitate to open new windows in your life!
Never hide yourself! When you say something, don’t be in the shadow; let everyone see you! Whatever you say always put your name under it! Be courageous enough not to use any mask; don’t forget that hiding among the bushes is the affair of the cowards! Let the Sun shines on your face and everyman see you!
Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!
Never let your dreams to be a nightmare for others!
Never wish the death of someone or you will lose your goodness inside you!
Nietzsche says God is dead. Probably now God says Nietzsche is dead! The one that will die is religion, not the God! God will always live!
Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer!
Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations.
No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!
No competence is required to be a scarecrow!
No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!
No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!
No eyes can read the future, because it is a book not yet written!
No fox is foxier than man!
No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!
No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful in itself!
No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!
No man can go to Heaven, but everyman can build one!
No man is a man without high morals and ethics.
No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe in God, He is a believer too, because he simply believes that God does not exist! Don’t give yourself airs just because you believe in something since everyman believes in something! Always be humble!
No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!
No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!
No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!
No one can save you, no one but your very reason! Therefore, improve your reason!
No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!
No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.
No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!
No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!
No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!
No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!
Nobody is “superior” to anybody else, only “different”, that is all!
Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good!
Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good!
Not all the snakes are poisonous and not all the poisons are deadly! Keep this in mind when bitten.
Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!
Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.
Not every New Year will be new unless we do something new!
Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker!
Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!
Not to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way!
Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!
Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.
Observe everything silently, like a little bird! This invites the angels of wisdom!
Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!
Obstacles! Man needs obstacles to get matured!
Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.
Old houses are full with memories and that’s why they resist to collapse!
On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!
On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!
On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost, but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!
On the path to truth, you can’t see many people; truth’s way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!
On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!
On the road to truth, only those who do not know what tiredness and fear means reach the truth!
On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!
On the road to your target, move cleverly and silently; when you reached your target, be humble and silent!
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!
On the wings of lies, man can only fly to the land of shame and lowness!
On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!
Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!
Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand!
One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!
One of the most tragicomic things in life is that when a man makes an imaginary thing – such as a religion – as his own flag and carries it all his life and even dies for it! An intelligent man has only one flag: Flag of reason and science!
Only a sheep with lion's heart can attack wolf, not the sheep with lion's teeth or with lion's claw!
Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!
Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!
Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!
Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads!
Only the man with a free mind has own the infinite horizons!
Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!
Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.
Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!
Open the door by yourself instead of waiting the door to be opened by itself!
Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!
Open yourself to the changes; you can then create many different beauties like the skies do!
Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!
Our chair will remain empty one day, but our ideas will continue to sit on that chair! However in the very distant future, there will remain neither chair nor ideas! All will disappear!
Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy!
Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.
Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!
Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!
Our mind is like a fog; even a moderate wind disperses it easily.
Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!
Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!
Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!
Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!
Paradise is not something unique; there are so many paradises in the universe; Earth is one of them!
Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!
Paths to other paths must always be open!
Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!
Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!
Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!
Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!
Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!
Peeling an apple with a sword is not something original; it is vulgar!
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!
People ask whether there is Hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell!
People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!
Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!
Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.’ That is very true, otherwise there wouldn’t exist any religion!
Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!
Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!
Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains!
Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.
Politics is the art of anesthesia.
Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!
Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!
Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms!
Praying is sending an SOS to the heavenly unknown.
Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.
Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!
Procrastination is the best action against putting an ankle bracelet on future.
Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That’s also the secret of why some head of states look brave!
Public is a good expert on making bad mistakes!
Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!
Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!
Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.
Read universally; think universally; live universally!
Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness!..
Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.
Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.
Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!
Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil's!
Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!
Religion is a bell jar; you cannot find God in that jar, because it is your bell jar, you have created it! Break the glass prison and get fresh air, elevate your intelligence! Wake up and open your eyes; see the truth beyond your prison! If you can’t break the glass, don’t worry; science will do it for you!
Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!
Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!
Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!
Religion’s biggest crime is to slow down the Human’s Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The truth is that there is no safe port; man is in emptiness! Intellectual Evolution is our only chance to build a safe port by ourselves!
Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.
Remember the unremembered; love the unloved; salute the unsaluted; hear the unheard; do the things which have not been done!
Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker’s beak making holes in tree trunks!
Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them!
Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!
Roald Amundsen says that ‘Adventure is just bad planning.’ In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!
Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!
Rocks do not have dreams and that’s why they are condemned to stay in the same place! To move, you must have dreams!
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!
Sadness is an opportunity; a good opportunity to learn the real life!
Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!
Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.
Science is a seagull, it knows the sky; it is a squirrel, it knows the forest; it is a mole, it knows the underground; it is a dolphin, it knows the ocean! Science is a multi-talented creature!
Science is going to build a base on the Moon! This is a very necessary and a very possible mission! Start and finish! Thousands of problems will arise in this mission, thousands of solutions will be found! Start and finish! Moon is a good hole to enter the blood vessels of the universe. Start and finish!
Science is our only hope to be the 'Holy Rope' tying man to the existence.
Science is the Noah’s Ark very itself! Seek no other vessel!
Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos.
Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!
Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending!
Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!
Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!
Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Think of not an emotion nobler than the compassion!
Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!
Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the fights must be done in the dimension of existence! Your body is your road to everywhere; if you destroy it, you lose all the roads! Stay firm and fight alive; no cause is more valuable than a man’s life! Keep your body out of the fire! Don’t ever praise the self-immolations; condemn them! Suicide is a defeat! Power is to fight, to fight peacefully, and not to die in agony!
Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero!
Shadows cannot harm the almighty!
Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.
Shoulders can carry great weights; minds, even much greater!
Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!
Sick minds like to prohibit; healthy minds like to free!
Silence and creativity are very close friends!
Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought.
Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!
Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!
Silent streets have many things to say.
Simple life and peaceful mind are very close friends!
Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!
Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!
Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!
Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!
Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!
Sincere wishes come true.
Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.
Smile creates love and peace; love and peace create smile.
Smile is a good reply to the dark world.
Smiling face is always beautiful even if it is hundred years old!
Smooth roads are boring; hard roads are hurting! Through boredom, you learn nothing and you get nothing; through hurt, you learn many things and you get wisdom! Never afraid of hard roads and always prefer them!
Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.
Society of thinking men! This kind of society has only one destiny: To Rise!
Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.
Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!
Some bridges are so beautiful that we wish them to be our own home!
Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don’t need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!
Some departures bring more light to your life!
Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn’t any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!
Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud!
Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!
Some man’s dreams can bring only nightmares to the world!
Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!
Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!
Some says that genetic engineering is within the scope of the God! Well, it was so, that area would have been encircled with the impassable high walls! Mankind cannot lose its time with this kind of religious craps! Genetic engineering is our garden!
Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!
Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!
Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don’t judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!
Sometimes in life, we reach to a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!
Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!
Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make only one plan; this will increase the possibility of success! On the edge of a precipice, if your second plan is a parachute on your back, your possibility of falling will increase! When you have nothing to trust, you will be safer, because you have no right to make any mistake!
Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!
Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!
Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!
Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!
Sometimes the world sits at a corner and waits for you to fail! Surprise the world!
Sometimes we walk away from our big dreams; but then, this time our big dreams don't let us to go away!
Sometimes we walk away from our big dreams; but this time, our big dreams don't let us to go away!
Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don’t be afraid of getting lost!
Sometimes you lose your way; you walk in the twilight of a forest; and suddenly you see an old but a beautiful house. And that old mossy house is a good quotation! It is old because it has wisdom; it is beautiful because it gives you a hope!
Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!
Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God.
Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself!
Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.
Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!
Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity.
Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.
Stars will continue to shine even when you are inside the mud; the universe does not care about you!
Start climbing the stairs without thinking how steep are the stairs or how many stairs are there!
Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory ‘Cosmos’ classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic.
Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.
Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the throne.
Stick to life, just like a baby sticking to a candy!
Stick to the honesty and never leave it!
Stop going to the zoos! Don’t take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!
Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!
Stop reading the news for a week; you will see that the world will turn from red to blue!
Storms are good friends because they light up the way to wisdom!
Storms are not afraid of you; all you must do is not to afraid of the storms too!
Strike the ignorants with the hammer of knowledge, wherever and whenever you see them!
Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!
Stumble is worse than falling, because stumble is not as instructive as the falling!
Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!
Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!
Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!
Sun always finds a way to give its light; truth always finds a way to show its face!
Sun gives light; torch gives light, candle gives light; smiling gives light.
Sun must set so that we can long for its rise!
Sun shines with its light; flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses.
Surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces!
Sürü! Senin ilk görevin çobanından kurtulmaktır!
Suspicion is the greatest enemy of love whether it is true or not.
Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.
Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts!
Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!
Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!
Take your tent and go for the camping! You are dying in the cities! Thousands of stars, hundreds of birds, tens of flowers are waiting for you to heal you!
Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.
Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!
Teach your sweet child to leave the beautiful flowers in the soil.
Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!
Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the opposites is to make us long for something! Thanks to the crowds, we long for the solitude; thanks to the solitude, we long for the crowds!
That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man's heart into a stone!
The adjective ‘decent’ and the noun ‘government’ have seldom come together in the human history!
The army of Truth is the real Invincible Armada. Truths are always destined to be victorious.
The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who permanently live in the house but by the travellers passing by!
The beauty of the moonlight has no meaning for the bats and for the unfeeling minds!
The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!
The best advice I’ve ever heard about anything is this: Don’t exaggerate! When you work hard, when you sleep long, when you love much, when you are very sad, always remember this advice: Don’t exaggerate!
The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.
The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!
The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.
The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!
The big fire has no right to despise the little spark!
The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.
The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!
The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.
The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!
The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.
The Dalai Lama once said that ‘If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!’ This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only!
The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!
The day you start giving importance to the life of even a little fly, you turn into a holy man!
The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops!
The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!
The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!
The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there!
The dust cannot fight against the wind; the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!
The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!
The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness!
The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun!
The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!
The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!
The face of tomorrow can be seen only in tomorrow.
The fate of the bridges is to be lonely; because bridges are to cross not to stay!
The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.
The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate!
The fist of a revolutionist must be hard like a gravestone; if not, his own gravestone will soon be erected!
The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.
The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue!
The good may lose; the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!
The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!
The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!
The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!
The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.
The greatest rank for a man is not FD, Defender of the Faith; but it is SD, Scientia Defensor: Defender of the Science!
The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
The greatest victory for man is not that his dreams were fulfilled but it is that to stand upright even when none of his dreams were fulfilled!
The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!
The house made of ice in the middle of a desert! And that house is the house of lies!
The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!
The key to success in every field is to hate failure in every way.
The key to success is not to seek for a particular key to success!
The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.
The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years?
The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!
The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!
The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.
The longest distance in the universe is not between the stars, but between the religion and the truth!
The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!
The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house!
The moon doesn't have enough gravity to keep an atmosphere around it and some men doesn't have enough honour to keep God's angels around them!
The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.
The Moon shows us only one side of its face and there is no man on Earth who can succeed this! Every man’s other face has its time to be seen!
The more coward you are, the bigger your castle is!
The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!
The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglier your face becomes!
The more people challenge us, the more power we gain. We become stronger not under the tiny raindrops but under the huge hailstone!
The more thinking minds, the less sinking world!
The more you stand aloof from the sword, from the arrow, from the lance and from the fist, the more you become civilised!
The most beautiful carpet is the carpet made of autumn leaves!
The most beautiful face is always the face of the peaceful mind!
The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts!
The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters!
The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!
The most beautiful things can only be created by the most free minds!
The most magical key for success is this simple sentence: I can do it! Repeat this in your mind! I can do it! I can do it! I can do it!
The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!
The nicest thing about creating ideas is that even when you finish your travelling, they continue their journey!
The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!
The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!
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!
The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.
The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!
The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks lake a lake!
The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.
The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.
The purpose of life is to pass the frontiers! Attack the frontiers to go beyond them with the determination of a bull attacking the red colour!
The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it!
The real traveller is the one who continues his journey even when the road ends!
The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!
The reason while we are in danger in this universe is this: We need the universe but the universe does not need us!
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!
The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth traveling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!
The road you travel might horribly get narrower; do not panic! Keep your spirits high; the road will get wider!
The roads to the stars are open only to those who grasp the great thoughts!
The scent of the morning is prepared by the night; the scent of the night is prepared by the day; everything helps everything!
The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!
The secret of success lies in this simple sentence: Why not?
The 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!
The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!
The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal.
The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society!
The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!
The Sun and the science are the same; when they set down, the darkness comes!
The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!
The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!
The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!
The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.
The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!
The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!
The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness.
The universe does not have a purpose, but we do have! Our purpose is to re-shape this purposeless universe in a way that it will not be able to kill us!
The universe has no mind and that’s why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!
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!
The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!
The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected!
The wind likes making jokes!
The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!
The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!
The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe better than the Earth can see it!
The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot!
The wisest minds are those who refuse all the negative inevitabilities!
The wolf eats the lamb; the strong eats the weak. This is not God’s Order, because it lacks justice, ethics and goodness. This chaotic structure belongs to the evolution! Evolution is primitive and it lacks high intelligence; it moves ahead by crawling and it is faulty! He who calls this system as God’s Order openly insults God! We must know that God is not in this universe; He is somewhere else, somewhere where there is no evolution, where there is justice, ethics and goodness!
The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil!
The world may not care about you! Cope with this fact! Stand strong like a rock! Keep walking; the road to happiness will mysteriously appear before you!
The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!
The World's most powerful army is the Army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!
The “stream” we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.
There are four seasons in a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Colour!
There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities
There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities.
There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!
There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies!
There are no crowds in the shores of wisdom!
There are no flowers in the Moon; that's why the Moon is a boring place!
There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!
There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.
There are some masters from whom you can learn good things. Streets are one of those masters!
There are some moments in man’s life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward!
There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.
There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!
There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.
There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!
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!
There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!
There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!
There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!
There is a beauty in every hell!
There is a great beauty in every language and there is a great language in every beauty! Be silent and listen to them!
There is a great beauty in little things.
There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness!
There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past!
There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!
There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs.
There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.
There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.
There is an eternal love between the water drop and the leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness.
There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!
There is much to be learned from the little kids and from the little animals! Little things teach us big things! Small candles too challenge the huge darknesses!
There is no difference between a death man and a man without love.
There is no gravity in the Planet of Love; everything floats in the air.
There is no justice here; there is no justice there; there is no justice anywhere!
There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!
There is no life in war; there is life only in peace.
There is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance!
There is no need for the street lights in the Street of Love; all is already bright in there!
There is no need to dream in nature because you are already inside the dream!
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don’t be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!
There is no place on earth or on the universe that a tree cannot turn a place into a more beautiful site!
There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!
There is no rain beyond the clouds; there is no humanity beyond the compassion!
There is no soul; there is only consciousness, the highest thing man ever has! Losing the conscious means to die! Death is not a door; when our conscious is gone, all is gone! Only the existence has the doors! Only the life presents you doors! You can save yourself only when you are alive, not after because there is no after! The first step for salvation is to know this simple truth!
There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!
There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!
There is nothing invisible in this universe! There is only our lack of eyesight!
There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!
There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don’t be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!
There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs!
There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!
There is something softer than the water: The touch of the love!
There is the will of the people, there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.
There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!
They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!
They say “Wine is Satan's falcon,”; apparently he uses it in hunting men!
Thing big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller!
Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!
Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God!
Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God!
This world has a secret rule: Those who have to die live, and those who have to live die!
Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!
Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!
Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!
Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!
Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.
Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!
Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!
Those who run away from the reality will eventually get run over by it!
Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!
Through helping one another, you can often eliminate the prefix ‘im’ from the word impossible!
Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.
Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion!
Time is so fast that all times are past times! When you look at a photo of the past, you must know that you are already in the album, someone else is looking at your photo! All times are past times!
Time is so fast that even ten years later is already a past!
Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!
Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.
Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.
To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!
To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!
To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!
To be forgotten is not something horrible; not to be remembered ever again is something horrible!
To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!
To be pessimist is to amputate one’s own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!
To create a new universal idea is to create a new star in the universe!
To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas!
To 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?
To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!
To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!
To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people’s beliefs!
To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.
To feel free, hide nothing!
To find what you are looking for, you must first forget what you are looking for!
To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful!
To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!
To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.
To kill your enemy is not a victory; but to make your enemy your friend that is a victory!
To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don't be afraid, you don't fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!
To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky!
To reach the Land of Calmness, you must pass through the Land of Storms! All heavens require hard struggling!
To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!
To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!
To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.
To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!
To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!
To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness!
To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!
To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!
To walk on the road is a journey; to sit under the tree is a journey! Everything we do is a journey to somewhere!
Today is the best day for anything and for everything! It is the only door you have; it is the only key you have!
Today’s religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!
Today’s warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!
Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!
Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.
Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people’s heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.
True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless!..
Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.
Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most!
Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!
Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!
Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds!
Under the storms, sun becomes a god!
Universe is blind; it cannot see us; we must find a way to show ourselves to it and science is the way to open the eyes of the universe!
Universe will be a very small place once we solve our speed problem! When that day comes, no man will talk about the greatness of the universe! All greatness comes from our smallness and from our slowness!
Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere!
Unless you are in the middle of a storm, there is no validity in saying that you are not afraid of the storms.
Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.
Update your truth! There is no soul; there is only mind and body! Update your truth or the truth will update you! The truth and the science are the greatest updaters!
Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted!
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!
Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!
Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!
Village is an idea; universe is an idea! If you cannot create an idea bigger than your village you live in, you remain inside your village; if we cannot create an idea greater than this universe, we remain inside this universe
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!
Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!
Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!
Wake up early; it is great to live the mornings.
Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!
Walk at the edge of the precipices! It is the best way to learn walking carefully!
Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!
Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!
Walls are made of fear; bridges are made of love!
War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the precious values!
Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.
Wars can destroy everything but hope!
Watching snowing would be much greater if there were no homeless people! Man can never be fully happy and comfortable till all men become happy and comfortable!
Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!
Watering the tree that does give you neither shade nor fruit is a real ethics!
We admire the castles, because we admire the security!
We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!
We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up!
We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made; all the dreams we dreamed! We are... We are all of them!
We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!
We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!
We are living in a 'one morning' world; we get up one morning and many things have changed! Tomorrow morning, there will be another 'one morning!'
We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!
We are the visitors in the lives of others; we visit them and we disappear!
We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!
We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone!
We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin!
We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!
We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.
We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!
We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!
We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.
We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!
We 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!
We determine our own price; it is always good to set our price to infinity so that no one can buy us!
We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!
We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.
We don’t have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!
We don’t like the storms because they challenge us! But for this very reason exactly, we must like them! Whoever challenges us gives us the opportunity to rise higher!
We find life in art and we find art in life!
We go up to the high places not to see what is up there but to see how the lower places look from the top!
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
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!
We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.
We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!
We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!
We love the morning, because we know that there will be night soon! We love the night, because we know that there will be morning soon! Who loves the morning if there shall be no night? Who loves the night if there shall be no morning?
We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!
We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!
We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!
We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!
We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!
We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!
We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!
We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!
We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!
We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.
We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!
We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!
We were once fish! We spent millions of years under the water in silence! That's why now we love talking continuously!
We wonder of the nature and the nature wonders of us!
Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties!
West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!
What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!
What 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!
What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?
What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?
What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!
What have you got if you do not have a peaceful corner where you can refresh yourself?
What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means a tragedy, but to consider it as a tragedy is in fact the greatest tragedy! In your every defeat, you must know that the paths of the victory never disappear; try those roads again!
What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!
What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man?
What is your dream? To be the most famous man in the world? What a stupid dream you have! To conquer the whole world with an army? What a primitive dream you have! To earn millions of dollars? What a greedy dream you have! Question your dreams!
What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That’s why mankind must change the end of the road!
What love can achieve, nothing else can achieve!
What 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.
What you believe might be wrong; what you don’t believe might be right! Don’t be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!
What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man!
Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people!
Whatever 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!
Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!
When a beautiful road ends, remember how it was to live it over again! When a hard road ends, remember how it was to get a lesson for the future!
When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!
When a dictator dies, oxygen increases in the world!
When a good change is flowing towards you, don’t stand like the river stones before it!
When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!
When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!
When a person becomes happy, the world becomes lighter! If all becomes happy, the world will be weightless!
When all is well in your end, it is not enough! All must be well in every end!
When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!
When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.
When everything is going greatly, you can never see the real faces of the people! Wait for the hard times to see the true face!
When feeling sad, dream on! When feeling happy, dream on! You shall survive by means of your dreams!
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!
When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.
When our star shines, someone else's fades away; when our dream is fulfilled, someone else's turns into a nightmare!
When somebody calls you stupid, if your face turns red from anger, it means that a part of you believes in this! When you call a wise man stupid, his colour never changes!
When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!
When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!
When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!
When something is done, it should be done the way a stone bridge that lives thousands of years is done!
When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!
When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!
When the beauties come together, there emerges a super beauty!
When the burden of life becomes heavier, when it starts crushing our shoulders with all its might, it is time to be stronger!
When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep.
When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright!
When the inspiration comes, let everything else go!
When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!
When the light powerfully shines upon us, the darkness cannot dare to touch us!
When the road seems to be endlessly long, increase your speed!
When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!
When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!
When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!
When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it; go to the seaside; sit and watch it! You will then reach the land where there is no thinking; the land of pure wisdom!
When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!
When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!
When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it.
When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun!
When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!
When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!
When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief
When the time came to move forward, don’t even think about to look at back for even a second!
When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!
When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won’t take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!
When the waves are crazy, the land is prettier!
When the way looks infinitely long, if you are sure that it is the right way, ignore the distance and start walking!
When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live!
When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!
When the winter comes, be very happy; because the spring comes only if the winter comes!
When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!
When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.
When there are no clouds in the sky, under the beautiful sunshine, remember the rain and repair your umbrella!
When we look at the sky, we see two things: The beauty of the space and the future of the humanity!
When we look at the sky, we see two things: The beauty of the space and the future of the humanity!
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!
When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!..
When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!
When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!
When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!
When you are grateful to the rain, do not forget also the clouds! When appreciating something, be fair enough also to appreciate the sources that created it!
When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.
When you are on the bright side of life, do not forget the people who are on the dark side and remember that man can easily slip from one side to the other!
When you are unhappy about something, you can always find thousands of other things to be happy!
When you are very successful, you fly at the very high altitudes and up there you long for to be applauded by the Stars or by the Moon or by the God Himself, not by the people down on earth! In this case, I advice you this: Be humble; only then you will get the applause of the sublimes; only then, of the noble heights!
When you become angry, you enter a tunnel, leaving the light behind you; when you get calm, you exit the tunnel, finding the light in front of you!
When you close your mouth, your ears will be bigger!
When you come across with a problem in your life, do not always try to solve it; make a long jump like a kangaroo and continue your way! Sometimes problems must be leaped over without touching them!
When you come across with the ideas that you don’t like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man!
When you cross a bridge, try to touch it with your hand! That will be a symbolic gratitude for the good service it gives to us!
When you do different things than others, you will have a different world than others.
When you do your work happily, work will disappear.
When you go upstairs, go up with high spirit; when you go downstairs, go down with high spirit.
When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!
When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the future.
When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too!
When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!
When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!
When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!
When you look at a beautiful view from a window, the beautiful view also looks at you from the same window! But the window looks at both you and the view! Wise man is the window itself; he looks at everywhere!
When you look at the sky, you must know that you look at the cosmic factory which enabled you to exist as a live being!
When you make something fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes!
When you make something fetish, ashes will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into ashes!
When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!
When you rise quickly like a swallow, you must keep in mind that you may also fall fast like a stone!
When you see your fellow religious man, don’t call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!
When you speak universally, it means that you speak from the Moon, you speak from the Sun, from the stars; you speak by being in every corner of the universe!
When you think that the road has ended, you must know that it is your ability to go beyond has ended, not the road!
When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side!
When you walk in a beautiful road, you must know that you are walking on a miracle: The miracle of evolution!
When you walk inside the nature, nature also walks inside you!
When you walk, try to think nothing! You can then obtain the silence of a streetlight or a bridge; stop thinking; after that, you become all you see!
When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!
When your dream dies, create another dream; don’t waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don’t stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short!
When your enemy falls to the ground, help him to get up! Never let a man in that condition stay on the ground! To help the weak, be it enemy, be it rival, is an honour for you!
When your mind is besieged by some inauspicious thoughts, you can bring the sunshine into your life by staying calm!
When your target is too far away from you, continue walking singing the song you like.
Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull!
Whenever we touch someone’s life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!
Whenever we wake up from a horrible nightmare, we don't immediately scream out of happiness.It takes a while to feel so safe and so good.
Whenever you find a good idea, search for the owner to honour him!
Where the sun sets, love rises!
Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people!
Wherever the ignorant triumphs, over there the greatest defeats are on the way!
Wherever the ignorant triumphs, the greatest defeats are on the way!
Wherever there are birds, there is hope.
Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!
Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!
Wherever there is peace lacking, try to create it and put it there!
Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down to increase the light of the world!
Wherever you stop, you will stay there. Don't expect the ground beneath you to move forward!
Whether it is sunny or rainy, make your walk to your destination!
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!
Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to a point in the future time is a great victory!
While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible!
While local matters are happening around you, let your mind sail to the ocean of universal matters.
While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.
While sleeping in a hammock, with the touch of a warm wind we remember why we are in love with the life!
While wishing a beautiful snowing for the streets of your city, do not forget also to wish a warm house for the homeless!
Whoever takes the decision of war, he is surely a stupid man!
Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!
Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!
Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!
Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!
William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!
Willpower is the shortest shortcut to success.
Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation!
Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise!
Wisdom is the highest position a man can attain!
Wise man and river; they both create new paths!
Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places!
Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!
Wise man is the rooster of the universe: He awakens the unawake!
With a good heart, you can win many battles!
With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!
With free mind, is there anything that you can not create? With unfree mind, is there anything that you can create?
With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!
With love, we rise; with hate, we sink! Always remember this golden law!
With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them! Do the second thing in the name of ethics and honour, for the glory of love and goodness!
With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos!
With the softest hand, you can shape the hardest rocks!
Without curiosity, all doors remain closed!
Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!
Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.
Without spring, life would be much less pinky!
Without trees, mountains, fogs or rains, the Sun cannot create its own magic!
Woodrow Wilson says that if you want to make enemies, try to change something! Well, I think there is an easier way to make enemies: Tell the truths!
Woody Allen once said that ‘I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.’ This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!
Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!
Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.
Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners.
World is brighter with the happiness of children.
World’s most beautiful road is the road to peace!
Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.
Yesterday, we needed justice; today, we need justice; tomorrow, we will need justice! Justice is our eternal need!
You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!
You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!
You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something nice in someone else's garden.
You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!
You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!
You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!
You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.
You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!
You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!
You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive!
You cannot escape from your past! But you can understand it! And once you understand it, you don’t have to escape from it any longer! Understanding liberates you!
You cannot light up all the caves. Behave like a sun! Send your light unto everything! It remains up to them to let the light inside their darkness!
You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!
You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown!
You can’t fix everything in life; you must leave some things unfixed to move forward! Do not feel bad about this, because you have no time to fix everything! Leave the unfixed there and move forward!
You can’t get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
You can’t think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!
You can’t think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!
You don’t walk with your feet; you walk with your courage! No courage, no walking!
You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!
You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!
You have always the same view from your window! For different views, visit other houses! And for different ideas, visit other minds!
You have so many miles and so many years to reach the stars; if you ignore this, you can reach over there!
You have to protect your food, otherwise someone else takes it! There is no divinity in here! But there is divinity there: In a civilised order where no being has to defend for its food!
You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!
You may believe whatever you want; but the most important thing is to update you belief with the truth, with the science! Your dearest belief might be the biggest buncombe ever! Don’t be sad! Continue your road with the new truth! Everything changes!
You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!
You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
You missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is!
You mortal! You time-poor! Don’t waste your scarce time to be patient!
You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!
You need new roads to discover new places!
You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!
Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!
Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!
Your mind and your luck determine your destiny!
Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!
Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!
Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!
Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!
• There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!
• Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!

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