What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for… — 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
“I'm going to make a jug, I'm going to make a plate, I'm going to make a lamp and the devil knows… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but… — 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
“Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery?… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed,… — 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 Image
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen... — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
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 Image
I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me! — 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 in Morocco… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.” — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
