Psychology Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

10 Psychology quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

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Nikos Kazantzakis provides a short series of reflections that probe the inner landscape. Though only ten entries, they carry his characteristic depth about human experience.

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I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my…

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You do miracles if you concentrate your mind on one thing and one thing only.

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The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

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“When you've made up your mind, no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting, Let your youth have free reign, it…

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All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create…

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O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song…

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

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

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Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're…

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“When I close my eyes to see, to hear, to smell, to touch a country I have known, I feel my body…

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Good Lord, how can the rich bear to die?

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“Religion is opium for the masses”

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I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!

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

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“The Lord preserve us from sainthood”

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“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be…

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“A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.”

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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…

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Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.

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I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven, God...and…

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“No, you're not free," he said. "The string you're tied to is perhaps no longer than other people's. That's all. You're on a long…

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The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in…

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