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Famous Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

“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!”

“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!”

“When you have much higher ethical values than the ethical values of your own people, you stop belonging to your own people, to your own country because your people and your country are now located in the low levels of humanity!”

“Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!”

“In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!”

“Every New Year must be celebrated at the heart of nature - in the middle of a forest or by the side of a lake under billions of stars - because it is nature who has made our existence possible!”

“In a society dominated by irrationality, it is difficult to come to power with rational discourses. So what to do? You must use irrational discourses! The rational part of the society will understand your tactic and vote for you. What about after coming to power? Irrational discourses should be completely thrown away and the country should be governed with rational policies. In fact, the easy part of the job is to win elections, the hard part is to manage the country with rational policies. The history of the world is full of examples that led their countries to disaster by applying irrational policies after winning an election.”

“The way to love the world is to know the world! But cities are not the world; churches and mosques are not the world; skyscrapers, airports are not the world! The tree is the world, the birds are the world, the blowing wind is the world, and the waves are the world! If you want to love the world, see the real world, that is, the world which we did not build, the world that was here long before us!”

“Sometimes this whole world looks very strange to you, the things you do seem strange to you, the behaviour of people, the conversations you hear here and there, the clothes, the roads, the plants, the animals, literally everything seems so strange to you! And let me tell you something weirder, that's exactly the feeling you should feel about this world, everything is really weird! Don't feel that you are mad when everything seems weird to you, because when everything seems normal to you, that’s real madness!”