"so few in reality are the true necessities…" — Nikos Kazantzakis
"so few in reality are the true necessities of man"
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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;…
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I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is…
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In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of…
— Leon Askin
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge…
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When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -…
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see…
— Diane Ackerman
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
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