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One Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.
- All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the…
- Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself…
- 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…
- Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
- Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed.…
- When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to…
- 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 what…
- 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…
- There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba
- 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.
- Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.
- I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.
- 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…
- I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle