Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other… — 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
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare… — 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
Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of… — 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… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
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
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and… — 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
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
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… — 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
God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings. — 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
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