Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

Magic of the shadows can best be seen in the deserts.

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!