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Quotes About Enlightenment

All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people; they must be governed by those who believe in the reason and science; they must be governed by the compassionate and just, by the ethical and honest, by the nonviolent and peaceful people; they must be governed by the libertarians; they must be governed by the people who believe in the enlightenment and who refuse to shape the society based on some childish religious stories!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ 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
Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everywhere we see shadowy minds, cloudy brains! World needs more light of wisdom!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
On the road to truth, only those who do not know what tiredness and fear means reach the truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some departures bring more light to your life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Strike the ignorants with the hammer of knowledge, wherever and whenever you see them!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The greatest rank for a man is not FD, Defender of the Faith; but it is SD, Scientia Defensor: Defender of the Science!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ 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