Mehmet Murat ildan

Religion does not belong to God it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!

If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!

You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!

If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!

Laugh represents a fragile glory of the mankind in this cruel and uncertain universe!

A day without laugh is a day without life.

It is perfectly banal to establish a city in the middle of nature but it is perfectly extraordinary to establish nature in the middle of a city! Ordinary nations do the first, extraordinary nations do the second!

A city full of art is a city full of wit!

There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!

You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature.

If you don__ hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!

For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!

There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities.

William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!

May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!

A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!

Just because you are living in a stupid country, you don__ have to be stupid! Isolate yourself from the fools! Protect your mind to be poisoned by the deceitful media, by the dishonest politicians, by the primitive culture and the illogical traditions! Rise above the lownesses of the system like a falcon rising from the marshland and start shining like a star for others to see you and to come near to you!

You must often leave your country, not necessarily physically, but mentally often! Leave your own music; leave your own religion! Leave your own culture, your own books and ideas! Walk around in the world of others, listen to what they speak and learn what they think! In short, get out of your puddle, sail to the ocean! Move, friend, move out of your country!