"I felt this was my duty ... to……" — Nikos Kazantzakis
"I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it ... into light."
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105 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis has 105 quotes on this site.
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As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and…
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The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
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What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become…
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my…
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As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with…
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Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it…
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As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with…
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No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but…
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I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the…
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What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers…
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The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a…
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I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...
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The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness…
— Conrad Grober
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There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all…
— Olaus Murie
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Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral…
— Daniel Gordis
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My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from…
— Ana Mendieta
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your…
— V.S. Naipaul
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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in…
— Carl Jung
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge…
— Petrarch
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Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience…
— Rosy Cole
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded…
— Ross Macdonald
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Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to…
— Ernst Mayr
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The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.
— Austin Osman Spare
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Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral…
— Kathy Reichs
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