Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

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 lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!

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 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!