You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!
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!
To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!
Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!
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!
Whatever happens when the seed meets the soil, the same thing happens when you meet the wisdom!
Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!
Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!
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!
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!
You will not find happiness till you find your peaceful corner in life!
If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!
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!
Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!
What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!
If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!
The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!
An invitation of a beautiful street is an invitation to walk within a dream!
When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!
Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!
Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!
Don’t let anybody to ruin your inner joy or to interfere in your marvellous rhythm!
If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!
Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!
Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!
If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!
If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!
You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!
Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!
Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!
Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!
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!
When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!
To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in only one earth! Continuing with the eco-traitor stupid governments means an environmental suicide! Enemies of nature are real barbarians and there is no place for these savages in our civilisation!
Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!
Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!
When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!
Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: When you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!
Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!
Not your eyes but the capacity of your mind determines how well you see the things happening around you!
Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!
When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!
If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!
Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you eliminate this fog? How can you liberate your mind? Just open your mind to the winds of all ideas!
When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!
In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!
The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!
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!
A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!
To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!
A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!
You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!
Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!
Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!
All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!
What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!
Powerful words always travel the whole world!
You can save hundred words with just one look!
Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.
To give light to others, you must first take light from others!
Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!
You can walk in a dream while you are awake: Just walk in the misty morning of a forest!
The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!
Night is the time to dream and morning is the time to actualize them!
Kindness is your best gift you can ever give to anyone in any time!
You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!
No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!
If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!
Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!
In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!
When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!
When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better worlds are often found this way! Darkness and uncertainty hide presents in itself!
Every morning is a revolution against the darkness!
Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!
Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!
Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!
Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!
No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!
You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!
Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!
The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!
You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!
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!
As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!
Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!
Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!
In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!
When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!
When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!
If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!
When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!
Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!
Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!
Anywhere you find peace of mind is your home!
Awareness creates another world - an already existing world where you were not aware of its existence! It is an operation of ‘mature cataract’ surgery!
You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people’s own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people’s life!
Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!
There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!
Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!
Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!
The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!
You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!
To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!
It is not possible to find a person where smiling does not suit him or her!
The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!
By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!
Let those who are awake awaken the dormant in every matter which desperately needs the liberating light of the truth or else the dormant will forever sleep!
Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!
The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!
If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!
Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!
Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!
Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!
Your path will shine when you shine on your path!
Whichever path you choose, always know how to quit this path, always know where the exit is because once realised that the path is wrong, it has to be left immediately!
All the paths kneel before the decisive minds!
The moment you think that there is no path before you, path disappears! The moment you think the opposite, path appears! All paths need people who see them!
The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!
To give up dreaming is to betray yourself!
Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!
The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!
Not only try but try your best!
Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!
Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!
To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!
Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!
He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!
What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!
Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!
Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!
Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!
Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious!
When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!
Resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation, resprout, revive! All these words can be summarised only in one word: Vacation!
Till you see only yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter, you will never feel that you are a very strong person!
Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!
If you are not interested in your own country’s problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!
If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!
Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!
If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!
Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!
Always try to see behind what you see because all you need to see can be only at the behind of the thing you see!
Wear red and just be silent, don’t even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red always speaks on behalf of you! By wearing red, you give your tongue and voice to red colour!
We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!
What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!
There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!
You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!
Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!
Be a provocateur! Provoke people to think! Provoke sleepers to awake! Provoke slaves to revolt against their masters! Provoke everyone to gain control over their fates unchecked! Provoke the lonely to participate the crowds and provoke the crowds to visit the loneliness! Be a provocateur! Provoke people to cross the bridges so that they can see the other side!
Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not!
A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!
By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!
Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!
We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!
It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow!
Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!
Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!
Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!
Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!
The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door!
If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!
Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!
For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!
When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!
Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!
While you are walking in a street, if you are not thinking about that street, we cannot say that you are walking in that street because you are always in the place where your mind is! Wherever you are, you can be in that place only by being at the present moment!
Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!
Far places and difficult things do not gently invite people to come to themselves, but they so to say pull people forcefully to themselves with some kind of mystical magnets!
There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!
To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!
There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!
However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!
Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!
As long as we are stronger than our troubles, we will always see them left behind us!
To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!
Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!
You must never travel on the road of hopelessness because that road is deprived of any kind of light!
The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!
The most important thing about the ‘next time’ is that there may not be a next time!
There is nothing uglier than an unrighteous and foolish majority!
No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!
A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!
It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our beautiful warm home in this cold universe! If you are a man of high moral standing, you will protect the Earth with all your heart! Earth is the only real holy temple on earth! The more we love the earth, the more we will be loved by the earth!
If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!
What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!
There are some ignorant and immoral politicians, the more they win the elections the more their countries lose! Their victory always results in the defeat and the collapse of the whole country!
In a petty theft you steal money, gold etc.; in an electoral theft you steal the future of a country! The second crime can be committed only by the meanest people! Such a heavy crime results in a heavy price!
The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of Atatürk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!
By being a fascist you lose your right to be called human being!
In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!
The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!
If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don’t lose time to think about it, do it right away!
If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!
Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!
If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!
You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!
When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!
People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!
He who helps you in your worst moment well deserves to be your best hero!
Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!
If you do not have a cause, then you have nothing at all! Get a cause and march with that cause!
Challenge is an art; you must know whom to challenge, how to challenge and when to challenge well, otherwise defeat becomes the inevitable fate!
The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!
To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!
For your shadow, you are his shadow!