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“Bizler ki aynı kitaba baş eğmiş insanlarız. Bizden ala akraba mı olur?”
― Cemil Meriç

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind, is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society; and that if the parent does not fulfil this obligation, the State ought to see it fulfilled, at the charge, as far as possible, of the parent.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
― Woody Allen

“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
― Hannah Arendt

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
― Hannah Arendt

“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”
― Hannah Arendt

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

“Diyeceğim, bizim halkımız, sokağa on yılda bir dökülür. İnançları ve parası değer düşümüne uğratıldığında.”
― Tomris Uyar, Metal Yorgunluğu: Seçme Öyküler

“Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Türk aydını yangından kaçar gibi uzaklaşıyor memleketten.Hayır kirlettiği bir odadan kaçar gibi.”
― Cemil Meriç

“Çok zaman kaybettim.
Çok zaman ve biraz da ümit.
Yaşamak bu galiba...”
― Cemil Meriç

“İnanmayan insanın, sevemeyen insanın, acıyamayan, kızamayan insanın köpek leşinden farkı yok.”
― Cemil Meriç, Jurnal 2. Cilt: 1966-83