To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one… — 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
When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“…Man’s heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and… — 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