Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

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• As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
• The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
• What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be…
• To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt…
• As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.
• Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a…
• As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall of certain souls…
• No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'
• I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark…
• What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels…
• The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me.…
• I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...
• I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it ... into light.
• The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you…
• This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he…
• I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece
• Every obstacle in his journey became a milestone, an occasion for further triumph. We have a model in front of us now, a model who…
• Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you do…
• God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever…
• By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non…

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