Muharrem Soyek

'Any person's conflict and reconciliation with the destiny of life is a novel that has been read at least once. However, first of all the poetry of life should be read by the voice of heart.' M. Soyek) (Turkish: 'Her insanın kaderiyle çatışması ve uzlaşması en az bir kez okunmuş romandır. Gene de her şeye rağmen önce gönül sesinden şiir okumalıydı insan.' Muharrem Soyek)

'Oh, heroic Turkish woman! You are not worthy of being dragged low on the ground; you are worthy of being raised to the sky on our shoulders...' M. Kemal Atatürk) (We can only repay our debt of gratitude to our women, the honor of our national existence all through the War of Independence and after then, by making the social life a world of paradise for them.… M. Soyek)

'The 8th of March, International Women's Day, is not celebrated where the woman is accepted as human as a man. Of course, if the woman has begun to be more than a man, as if she is over the man, then the 9th of March can be celebrated as an International Men's Day.' Muharrem Soyek (Turkish: Kadının adamdan sayıldığı yerde 8 Mart Günü kutlanmaz. Tabi kadın gereğinden fazla adamlık taslamaya başlamışsa 9 Mart Dünya Erkekler Günü kutlanabilir…)

In admiration that the universal cycle is formed with its harmonious flaws that are never repeated once more again, the meaning of philosophy is: researching with skeptical thinking, asking questions, scrutiny, understanding, seeing the problem and showing the solutions. Philosophy is the love of wisdom determined with the art of inquiry that is curious to learn. M. Soyek) (Turkish: Evrensel döngünün, asla aynısı yinelenmeyen uyumlu kusurlarıyla oluşlarına hayranlık içinde felsefe yapmanın meramı: Kuşkucu düşünceyle araştırma, soru sorma, irdeleme, anlama, sorunu görme ve çözüm yollarını göstermeye yöneliktir. Felsefe yapmak, öğrenmeye meraklı sorgu sanatıyla ulaşmaya azmedilen bilgelik aşkıdır…)

(The very near and last miracle after being a hominid is to be a human being that knows how and what to be all through the life... Muharrem Soyek)

From now on the most deal of human being is not to return back to heaven, but to turn the world into paradise… Muharrem Soyek) (İnsanın asıl meselesi artık cennete geri dönmek değil, dünyayı cennete çevirmektir… Muharrem Soyek)

'So much unhappiness and sadness is not coming from the nature of creation; it is the human's inability to exist as a natural human being...' Muharrem Soyek

'There is no freedom in democracy to marginalize anyone but ourselves.' M. Soyek; translated from the book Felsefe Fenerim (İn Turkish: ''Demokraside kendimizden başkasını ötekileştirme özgürlüğü yoktur.')

'My civilization consciousness says, 'rights must be given even if not taken...' Muharrem Soyek (İn Turkish: 'Benim uygarlık bilincim der ki, ‘hak alınmasa bile verilmelidir…') Translated from my book, Felsefe Fenerim

'Politics is the art of using social oppositions between individuals and reconciling the opposites with the intention of achieving goals that will be good for humanity.' Muharrem Soyek; My Philosophy Lantern) (Turkish: 'Politika, insanlık için iyi olacak hedeflere ulaşmak amacıyla bireyler arasındaki toplumsal karşıtlıkları kullanma ve karşıtları uzlaştırma sanatıdır.' Muharrem Soyek; Felsefe Fenerim)

'When the passengers mingle and organize in the same direction, the road begins to walk with them.' (translated from Felsefe Fenerim written by M. Soyek (In Turkish: 'Yolcular aynı yönde kaynaşıp örgütlendiğinde yol da onlarla birlikte yürümeye başlar.')

'If not used as a remedy for humanity, democracy itself becomes a helpless problem for humanity...' M. Soyek; My Philosophy Lantern) (In Turkish: İnsanlık adına çare için kullanılmayan demokrasinin kendisi çaresiz bir sorun olmaya başlar...)

'In my opinion, the understanding of secularism is the will to leave everyone who respects individual and social rights and freedoms, alone with their own god, belief and thought.' M. Soyek; My Philosophy Lantern) (In Turkish: Bence laiklik anlayışı, bireysel ve toplumsal hak ve özgürlüklere saygılı herkesi kendi tanrısı, inancı ve düşüncesiyle baş-başa bırakabilme iradesidir. M. Soyek; Felsefe Fenerim)

'To the extent that the the self-responsible consciousness will designe and liberate the life, that is in fact the consciousness of the self-being, the heavenly words of the God will cease to be hope and become our world reality.' M. Soyek; My Philosophy Lantern) (In Turkish: 'Bilincin kendini bilmesiyle, yani insanın kendinden sorumlu iradeyle tasarladığı yaşantıyı özgürleştirdiği oranda, tanrı çıktısı bilinçlerin cennet sözleri de umut olmaktan çıkıp dünya gerçeğimiz olacaktır.' M. Soyek; Felsefe Fenerim)

'A person who wonders and questions the place of knowledge in the universal reality of existence, is surely doing philosophy even if he is not considered a philosopher.' Muharrem Soyek) (Turkish: 'Bilginin evrensel varoluş gerçekliğindeki yerini merak edip sorgulayan kişi filozof olmuş sayılmasa bile felsefe yapıyor demektir.' M. Soyek; Felsefe Fenerim)

'Living is the reality of acquiring the necessities of holding on to the flow of life.' Muharrem Soyek (Turkish: 'Yaşamak, hayatın akışına tutunma gereklerini kazanım gerçekliğidir.' M. Soyek; Felsefe Fenerim)

'Everything just becomes itself under the temporal and relative conditions of existence; man, on the other hand, becomes himself and makes himself using the same relativistic conditions of existence...' Muharrem Soyek (Turkish: 'Her şey zamansal var-oluş koşullarına göreceli biçimde kendi olur; insansa aynı görecelik koşullarıyla hem kendi olur hem kendini oldurur...' M. Soyek; Felsefe Fenerim)

'Philosophy is the knowledge of consistent doubt that questions all reality and unreality to its nothingness.' Muharrem Soyek (Turkish: 'Felsefe, gerçeği ve gerçek dışılığı hiçliğine kadar sorgulayan tutarlı kuşkunun bilgisidir.' M. Soyek; Felsefe Fenerim)

'The philosopher's intention to philosophize is to shine the light of perception and concept that will make knowledge visible.' Muharrem Soyek (Turkish: 'Filozofun felsefe yapma niyeti, bilgiyi görünür yapacak algı ve kavram fenerini ışıtmaktır.' M. Soyek; Felsefe Fenerim)

'To err, is only possible in what one knows or ought to know; beyond there, it is just fate that is flawed…' (Turkish: "Kusur eylemek, insanın ancak bildiği ya da bilmesi gerektiği şeyde yanlış yapmasıdır; bunun ötesinde kusurlu olan sadece kaderdir…" M. Soyek; Felsefe Fenerim)

'Rejecting all patterns of knowledge that is blessed and eternally sealed by the hand of righteousness, philosophy is the temple of questioning the knowledge of gods and demons.' Muharrem Soyek (Turkish: 'Kutsanmış, ebedi doğruluk mührü çakılmış tüm bilgi kalıplarını reddeden felsefe, tanrıların ve şeytanların bilgisini sorgulama tapınağıdır.' M. Soyek; Felsefe Fenerim)

'Philosophy, which does not question the knowledge of consciousness, does not create more vital beauty than the pearly caftan that covers the mind.' M. Soyek

'The highest aim of philosophy is not to objectify knowledge with absolute truth on behalf of humanity, but to conceive the process of being by and with any universal existence knowledge, in order to liberate human consciousness. Philosophy is to open the way for consciousness to know itself by questioning the knowledge of existence.' M. Soyek; Felsefe Fenerim

We will either surrender to the fate of possibilities or we will train our brains that make us the miracle of the universe and infuse ourselves with conscientious and healing science. (Muharrem Soyek; My Philosophy Lantern)

Darkness is not something you can get out of it without respecting the light both inside and outside of you. Muharrem Soyek; My Philosophy Lantern

Shall we live to turn the earth into a paradise, or shall we die being content with only longing for the divine paradise? From now on, we will be worthy of what we have intended… (Muharrem Soyek; My Philosophy Lantern)

'Where remembering is helplessly too late and forgetting is the last regret, a mind that cannot predict what to do will be crushed under the dent of hell...' M. Soyek

'The more I loved the created, the more I loved God the creator…' Muharrem Soyek; My Philosophy Lantern

Mourning is a delicate heart tremor.' (M. Soyek; My Philosophy Fener)

'Man, who mourns lonely by himself, suffers all the pain; that is great bravery…' M. Soyek; My Philosophy Lantern

'The disturbing power of silence is that it suspends the approval of the spoken meaning.' Muharrem Soyek; My Philosophy Lantern

'Belief, held by the power of faith, ties and knots logic worse than love does. If we were to hold on to logic that had no ties to reason, there would be neither faithful belief nor love...' Muharrem Soyek; My Philosophy Lantern

Thinking is the love of matter and energy with the most sensual soul. M. Soyek; My Philosophy Light

'You mother earth, we must walk with holy compassion in every step we take on you. Every step should be a prayer of thanks…' Native American spirit