Men Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Each man must have his own special route to lead him to God.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

— Nikos Kazantzakis

God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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

What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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

This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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

God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only…

— Nikos Kazantzakis