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Quotes About Belief

The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The longest distance in the universe is not between the stars, but between the religion and the truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Today's religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan