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Quotes About Philosophy

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Here is the biggest truth about the Universal Order: There is no order!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
May God protect us from all the religions!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan