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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!"
"Every time you walk lonely, you get a very special gift: The silence!"
"Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!"
"There are many madnesses in every culture! All cultures need reason!"
"The reality of the mind can be one hundred percent different than the reality of the reality!"
"You can never leave a place unless you leave that place in your mind!"
"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"
"There is only one autumn in a year, but in people's life, there are many autumns in one year!"
"Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light!"
"Today's living people are much more important than tomorrow's yet unborn people! We need to help the people of today before helping the people of tomorrow! We cannot make our plans so as to save the people of distant future by ignoring today's people!"
"In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always more honourable than to be a killer!"
"Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!"
"While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe."
"Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!"
"If you want to be respected, do something respectful!"
"There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations."
"If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!"
"Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!"
"When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!"
"Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!"
"Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared."
"Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!"
"No matter how strong you are, there is always another power which can defeat you easily!"
"There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!"
"If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!"
"Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!"
"Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!"
"Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality!"
"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"
"For those who challenge the great dangers fearlessly, let us remind this realistic probability: Fear can save your life and courage may kill you; thus sometimes fear is a reasonable path to continue your path!"
"You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt."
"People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas, they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!"
"Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!"
"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world."
"Life shines where the light shines and our mind is our greatest light that can brighten our lives!"
"Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target!"
"If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!"
"However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!"
"The clever cannot catch the genius, such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!"
"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
"For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!"
"If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!"
"Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!"
"The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!"
"If your words touch the hearts, that's good; if your words touch the minds, that's better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!"
"There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!"
"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!"
"The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of AtatA1?4rk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!"
"One of the most distinct features of this whole human history is god flattery! People never get tired of buttering every kind of gods in the hope of getting earthly benefit or obtaining heavenly plunder! Man is no doubt a tireless flunkey!"
"Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!"
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