Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 32

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.
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What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!
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For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.
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It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.
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All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!
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Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!
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He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!
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The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!
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Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path!
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Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!
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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!
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There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!
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The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!
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Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!
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No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!
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The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!
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This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!
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If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living!
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Life is offering you infinite paths! To get stuck in one path is nothing but shallowness! Go deep, discover other lanes!
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Catch the life with the agility of a dog trying to get a hold of the flying Frisbee!
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Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!
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If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!
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With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!
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Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!
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In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!
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They say life is a test and this is a ridiculous idea! There is neither examination nor examinant! You encounter problems in life either because you are stupid or your path just crosses with the problems’ path by luck! Nobody is sending you problems to test you! Stay loose and chuck out the irrational idea of ‘test’ at once!
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When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!
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Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!
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A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future is closed for such archaic residuals from the pre-modern time of social evolution!
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On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!
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We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!
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Religion is not a bridge between God and Man it is the Great Wall of China between them!
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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!
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Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.’ That is very true, otherwise there wouldn’t exist any religion!
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La religion n'est pas un pont entre Dieu et l'homme, c'est une Grande Muraille de Chine entre eux!
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Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!
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To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don’t be afraid, you don’t fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!
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Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!
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For God’s sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things!
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Religion does not belong to God it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!
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You must let other people to challenge your truths; you must let them to question your faith and the reason for this is very simple: Your truths might be very wrong; your faith might be very mistaken. Don’t be a castle; you need bridges surrounding you, not walls! And remember that walls belong only to cowards!
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I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!
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For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!
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Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!
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If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!
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A homeless with hope is in a better situation than a hopeless with home!
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Human mind is the only real hope for the future of humanity! Have faith in human mind which is the only instrument who can protect you in this savage universe!
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In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!
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Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don’t worry; even if you can’t find it, a new hope will come and find you!
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The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!
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The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!
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Happy people is a great hope to all the unhappy people because a path of success can always be used by the people who couldn’t find such a path yet!
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You can never catch real happiness without making others happy!
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If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!
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You will not find happiness till you find your peaceful corner in life!
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To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don’t have to worry for anyone!
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In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!
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You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!
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Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!
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Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!
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