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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
We admire the castles, because we admire the security!
Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!
Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.
Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!
Use the hills to get stronger!
To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!
Watching snowing would be much greater if there were no homeless people! Man can never be fully happy and comfortable till all men become happy and comfortable!
Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!
We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power.
We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!
We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up!
Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.
We are the visitors in the lives of others; we visit them and we disappear!
We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!
We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!
Universe will be a very small place once we solve our speed problem! When that day comes, no man will talk about the greatness of the universe! All greatness comes from our smallness and from our slowness!
We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin!
We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!
What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!
Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most!
Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!
What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?
Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!
To walk on the road is a journey; to sit under the tree is a journey! Everything we do is a journey to somewhere!
Today's religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!
To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.
Watering the tree that does give you neither shade nor fruit is a real ethics!
Under the storms, sun becomes a god!
Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds!
What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!
Unless you are in the middle of a storm, there is no validity in saying that you are not afraid of the storms.
Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!
We can see a man smiling without legs or without hands, but we can't see a man smiling without hope!
Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!
Village is an idea; universe is an idea! If you cannot create an idea bigger than your village you live in, you remain inside your village; if we cannot create an idea greater than this universe, we remain inside this universe
West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!
We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!
We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made; all the dreams we dreamed! We are... We are all of them!
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!
We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!
What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?
Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties!
To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness!
To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!
Today is the best day for anything and for everything! It is the only door you have; it is the only key you have!
Walk at the edge of the precipices! It is the best way to learn walking carefully!
We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!
We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!
Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!
We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!
We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!
Wars can destroy everything but hope!
Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!
We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!
To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!
Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.
We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!
Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted!
We don't like the storms because they challenge us! But for this very reason exactly, we must like them! Whoever challenges us gives us the opportunity to rise higher!