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Author of dozens of works on philosophy, language, literature, history and culture, master translator Huseyin Cemil Merich was born in 1916 in the Rayhanli district of Turkey. He completed his primary education in his village. He received his secondary education at the Antakya Sultani School, which specializes in French. He then studied French at Istanbul University's Faculty of Foreign Languages.
From 1946 to 1974, he worked at Istanbul University, teaching students French. Jamil Merich's eyes had been unloved since childhood. So in 1955 he went to Paris for surgery. But after the operation, he loses his sight completely. He wrote his works while telling his wife, Mrs. Fevziya.
Cemil Merich died on June 1987, 13. Among them are such scientific treatises as "Indian literature", "Light radiates from the east", "From culture to wisdom", "Caves", "This country", "Forty warehouses", "The story of a tragedy", "Diary" and journalistic works remained. The following proverbs are collected from his works:
• Science means endless struggle.
• Self-knowledge is the greatest enlightenment.
• The sun illuminates the world, and the words enlighten the people.
• Reading is a romantic communication between two souls.
• Geniuses are the most dangerous gifts of nature.
• Fear of non-books, not books.
• The originality of emotions is determined by the power and accuracy of the impact.
• History is created by the constant struggle between the public and the individual.
• Every great man is a stepchild of a society that lives in his bosom.
• An insane translator is a chemist who seeks to find the "philosopher's stone."
• It is the conscientious duty of every honest writer to express his truth in his own words.
• Religion - thirst, longing for eternity… Love, not knowledge…
• The book is a letter to the future… Bashang dressed excitement, mummified thinking…
• Love is a strange fire. If you don't want it to go away, you have to throw everything you have at it: your time, your pride, your consciousness…
• No matter how much we seek light, it is impossible to find more than we can imagine.
• You did not see the forest, you did not see the tree, you thought that a handful of dried leaves thrown by the wind at your feet was the sum of human thinking…
• Understanding begins with doubt.
• The concept is whole with contradictions. To turn a deaf ear to conflicting opinions is to condemn oneself to mistakes.
• Mankind is like a child who has not stopped running after bad toys.
• Doors open to the ignorant, books: to fairy tales, mysteries, eternity…
• History is an unsealed treasure.
• Rebellion is the architect of history: destiny, time, man…
• The encyclopedia is the honor of the nation.
• Maybe the culture is asleep, but also dreaming…
• Raskolnikov was alone in a pre-crisis society, like Dostoevsky.
• Irfan is the door to perfection, the knowledge gained through hard work.
• Irfan is a word that can fit all the poles of thinking.
• Among all the geniuses of the East, Zoroaster was the favorite of the West.
• A great writer is a person who shouts somehow without breaking the voice that comes from within. Great writers do not reckon with the common man in word usage.
• Living is an injury. Injury is also beautiful.
• Two words that completely repeat each other cannot be found in either one language or two different languages.
• Words are your stars. Words… Say, let it rot, let the fire spread its hair in the endless garden of dreams. A charming man sleeping in the woods. The poet is a prince from afar. So love the words. Let them reach you. Have the stars reached God? Words are my shadow in the water, I can't erase them, I can't kiss them. The state is words, magnificent and revered. A bridge from heart to heart, a stairway from century to century. Words are a river that resides on its own. Words are eternal, words are transient.