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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy."
"You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!"
"Waiting makes wine better, but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!"
"No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!"
"When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!"
"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"
"We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!"
"If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!"
"No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!"
"Flowers are like the sweet babies of the nature, they make us to smile."
"As long as your determination is at least as long as the the road you travel, you will definitely reach your destination!"
"Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions to reach them!"
"If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness."
"We can't see and we can't reach the true frontiers of our ignorance, we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge."
"Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!"
"If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!"
"You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!"
"Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!"
"All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!"
"You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!"
"A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!"
"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!"
"Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!"
"We don't give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!"
"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!"
"There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!"
"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
"Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!"
"Wisdom is not to be at the top of a giant pyramid and hence see everywhere clearly, but wisdom is to be at the top, at the bottom, to be inside the pyramid, it is to be everywhere!"
"Catch the life with the agility of a dog trying to get a hold of the flying Frisbee!"
"History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!"
"It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!"
"There is no real silence for the sensitive ears and there is no real tranquility for the sensitive hearts!"
"Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies, the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always!"
"We often think that earth is the ground where our houses are built; but scientifically saying, space is the ground and earth is the house built on that ground!"
"Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!"
"A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!"
"If your country is governed by the most stupid people, it is vital for you to continue going up personally while your nation and your country is going down because your country will inevitably collapse and it will be in need of people like you, people who managed to improve themselves while everything else was falling and deteriorating!"
"Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!"
"At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!"
"As long as there exist summer, we shall love the winter! The day summer disappears from Earth, we shall hate the winter!"
"If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday!"
"Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!"
"The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny!"
"In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!"
"A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!"
"Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!"
"Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!"
"What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door!"
"History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!"
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