Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. "An eclipse of God... an eclipse of God” — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Love responsibility. Say: It is my duty, and mine alone, to save the earth. If it is not saved, then I alone… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream.… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The higher we went the more our spirits seemed to become purged and exalted. Once again I felt the influence on the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“...I spent the whole morning coiled up in front of the fire, with my hands over it, eating nothing, motionless, just listening… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The people cast themselves down by the fuming boards while servants cut the roast, mixed jars of wine and water, and all… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
That part of Christ's nature which was profoundly human helps us to understand him and love him and to pursue his Passion… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“We gaze with perplexity at the highest part of the spiral of force that governs the Universe. And we call it God. We could… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen... — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
Everything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who begins to… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me! — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies in Morocco… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
“A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.” — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
There's a devil inside me which cries, "You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven, God...and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
“No, you're not free," he said. "The string you're tied to is perhaps no longer than other people's. That's all. You're on a long… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
