Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 37

Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age
Baris Gencel
Isn’t that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something… Incomplete information… Endless possibilities… When you don’t know much about something, it’s the most exciting sensation.-Kutsnetz in TALUS
Erol Ozan
Religion is not a bridge between God and Man it is the Great Wall of China between them!
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
Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.’ That is very true, otherwise there wouldn’t exist any religion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
La religion n'est pas un pont entre Dieu et l'homme, c'est une Grande Muraille de Chine entre eux!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My fear was not the fear of God but, as in the case of the whole Turkish secular bourgeoisie, fear of the anger of those who believe in God too zealously(...) I experienced the guilt complex as something personal, originated less from the fear of distancing myself from God than from distancing myself from the sense of community shared by the entire city .
Orhan Pamuk
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Religion does not belong to God it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In our household doubts more troubling than these were suffered in silence. The spiritual void I have seen in so many of Istanbul's rich, Westernised, secularist families is evident in these silences. Everyone talks openly about mathematics, success at school, football and having fun, but they grapple with the most basic questions of existence - love,compassion, religion, the meaning of life, jealousy, hatred - in trembling confusion and painful solitude. They light a cigarette, give their attention to the music on the radio, return wordlessly to their inner worlds.
Orhan Pamuk
Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.
Orhan Pamuk
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeoisstrikes meI like it
Nâzım Hikmet
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
วันหนึ่งในฤดูหนาว สมัยที่คุณเป็นนักเรียนมัธยม หิมะกำลังตก คุณกำลังครุ่นคิดอะไรบางอย่างจนลืมสิ่งอื่น คุณได้ยินเสียงพระเจ้าในตัวคุณ และคุณก็พยายามจะลืมพระองค์ให้ได้ คุณเห็นว่าโลกนี้เป็นหนึ่งเดียว แต่คุณคิดว่าถ้าสามารถหลับตาลงไม่มองภาพนี้ คุณจะเศร้าหมองได้มากกว่าและมีสติปัญญาล้ำเลิศกว่าด้วย ซึ่งคุณก็คิดถูกแล้ว มีแต่คนที่ฉลาดมากๆ หม่นหมองมากๆ เท่านั้นที่จะเขียนบทกวีได้ดี ดังนั้นคุณจึงยืดอกอย่างหาญกล้าและแบกรับความเจ็บปวดของการไร้ศรัทธา เพียงเพื่อจะได้เขียนบทกวีดีๆ แต่หารู้ไม่ว่าเมื่อคุณสูญเสียเสียงข้างในที่ว่านั้นไป สุดท้ายคุณจะลงเอยอย่างโดดเดี่ยวในจักรวาลอันว่างเปล่า
Orhan Pamuk
ต่อให้คุณเชื่อในพระเจ้าจริง มันจะไปได้เรื่องได้ราวอะไรถ้าคุณเชื่ออยู่คนเดียว คุณจะต้องเชื่อในพระเจ้าแบบเดียวกับที่คนยากจนเชื่อ คุณต้องกลายเป็นหนึ่งในคนพวกนั้นด้วย คุณจะต้องกินสิ่งที่พวกนั้นกิน ใช้ชีวิตแบบที่พวกนั้นเป็น หัวเราะเรื่องตลกที่พวกนั้นหัวเราะกัน แล้วก็โกรธทุกครั้งที่พวกนั้นโกรธ คุณถึงจะเชื่อในพระเจ้าของพวกนั้นได้ ถ้าคุณกลับตาลปัตรใช้ชีวิตที่ต่างออกไป ก็จะเป็นไปไม่ได้ที่คุณจะไปนับถือพระเจ้าองค์เดียวกันกับพวกนั้น
Orhan Pamuk
นายไม่ไว้ใจคนที่ไม่ชอบยุ่งเกี่ยวกับใคร มีแนวคิดแบบตะวันตก ขณะเดียวกันก็มีความเชื่อในพระเจ้าในแบบของตัวเองอยู่เงียบๆ ตามลำพัง นายมองว่าคนที่ไม่เชื่อในพระเจ้าแต่ยังเข้าร่วมกับชุมชน ยังน่าเชื่อถือได้มากกว่าคนสันโดษที่เชื่อในพระเจ้าเสียอีก สำหรับนายแล้ว คนสันโดษน่าสมเพชเวทนาและบาปยิ่งว่าคนที่ไม่เชื่อในพระเจ้า
Orhan Pamuk
ผมเคยเปิดสารานุกรมดูแล้ว คำว่า atheist มาจากคำภาษากรีกว่า athos แต่คำนี้ ไม่ได้หมายถึงคนที่ไม่เชื่อในพระเจ้า มันหมายถึงคนโดดเดี่ยว คนที่พระเจ้าละทิ้งต่างหาก เรื่องนี้พิสูจน์ว่าคนเรานั้นแท้จริงแล้วไม่สามารถเป็น atheist ได้ เพราะต่อให้อยากเป็น พระเจ้าก็จะไม่มีวันทอดทิ้งพวกเราที่นี่ ฉะนั้นการจะเป็น atheist ได้ คุณจะต้องเป็นคนตะวันตกเสียก่อน
Orhan Pamuk
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hak cihâna tolıdur kimseler Hakk’ı bilmez / Anı sen senden iste o senden ayru olmaz.
Yunus Emre
Sevgili Güllük;Yastık kanepenin üzerine konur. Tekme atılarak düşürülür o. Pazar günleri kuru fasulye yenir. Karşılıklı, alt alta, üst üste ve daha değişik şekillerde durulur. Islak vardır. Portakalın içi de dışı gibi portakal rengidir. Köstebeklerin uçma kabiliyeti bulunmaz. Kamyonlar yük taşırlar. Kaza olur. Kaza yaparlar. Süleyman, Çetin, Atıf, Kemal, Necdet gibi erkek isimleri; Zeynep, Burçak, Burçak ve Burçak gibi kız isimleri vardır. Patates cinsleri vardır; kızartmalık ve haşlamalık. Çeşitli ebatlarda düğün pastaları olur. Muz olur.
A.H. Muhsin Ünlü
Sufilere sohbet gerek Ahilere ahret gerek Mecnunlara Leyla gerek Bana seni gerek seni
Yunus Emre
Once upon a timeI fell in loveLost myselfAnd find another one.
Arzum Uzun
evet kimsesizdik ama umudumuz vardıüç ev görsek bir şehir sanıyorduküç güvercin görsek meksika geliyordu aklımızacaddelerde gezmekten hoşlanıyorduk akşamlarıkadınların kocalarını aramasını seviyorduksonra şarap içiyorduk kırmızı yahut beyazbilir bilmez geyikli gece yüzünden
Turgut Uyar
For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ölüyorum tanrımBu da oldu işte.Her ölüm erken ölümdürBiliyorum tanrım.Ama, ayrıca, aldığın şu hayatFena değildir...Üstü kalsın...
Cemal Süreya
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
İnsanlık öldü belki de hiç yaşamamıştı..!!Humanity was dead.Maybe never live too..!!
Oğuz Atay
Bu dağlarda bin kere ölmeden, bir kere dirilemezsin.
Yaşar Kemal
If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A homeless with hope is in a better situation than a hopeless with home!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There was so much filth to clean up; so many broken pieces to fix; so many errors to correct. Every morning she left her house she let out a quiet sigh, as if in one breath she could will away detritus of the previous day.--Three Daughters of Eve
Elif Shafak
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can never catch real happiness without making others happy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will not find happiness till you find your peaceful corner in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.
Orhan Pamuk
In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.
Erol Ozan
Happiness is the most tired word in any language.
Erol Ozan
If a stone hits a river, the river will treat it as yet another commotion in its already tumultuous course. Nothing unusual. Nothing unmanageable. If a stone hits a lake, however, the lake will never be the same again.
Elif Shafak
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever happens when the seed meets the soil, the same thing happens when you meet the wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are paths above the paths, the paths of the birds! There are paths above the paths of the birds, the paths of the clouds! And there are paths above the paths of the clouds, the paths of the planets! When you are travelling on a path, never forget that there are higher paths, there are higher wisdoms over your head!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle’s eye!
Mehmet Murat ildan