You do miracles if you concentrate your mind on one thing and one thing only. — 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
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
All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“When you've made up your mind, no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting, Let your youth have free reign, it… — 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
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
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
Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“When I close my eyes to see, to hear, to smell, to touch a country I have known, I feel my body shake and fill with joy as if a beloved person had come near me. A rabbi was once asked the following question: ‘When you say that the Jews should return to Palestine, you mean, surely, the heavenly, the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
“We gaze with perplexity at the highest part of the spiral of force that governs the Universe. And we call it God. We could give it any other name: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Total Light, Matter, Spirit, Supreme Hope, Supreme Despair, Silence. “But we call it God, because only this name – for some mysterious reason – is capable of… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share
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