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Men Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
- 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…
- 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.'
- 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.…
- 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…
- Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you do…
- We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is…
- This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men,…
- Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we…
- Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for…
- God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.
- Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
- the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing:…
- Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
- Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggles.
- Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
- You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
- What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
- If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will…
- so few in reality are the true necessities of man
- Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we…
- The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.
- God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh…
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