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
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
I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it ... into light. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. — 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
I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my… — 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
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
We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other… — 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
“With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill with answers. I did… — 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
![“With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill with answers. I did not ask questions any more; I was certain. Everything - where we came from, where we are going, what our purpose is on earth - struck me as extremely sure and simple in this…” quote by Nikos Kazantzakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f9/nikos-kazantzakis-1116_answers_with-the-passage-of-days-in-this-godly-i_2410536.jpg)
