"You can knock on a deaf man's door…" — Nikos Kazantzakis

"You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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105 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and…
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…
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my…
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with…
Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it…
As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with…
No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but…
I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the…
What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers…
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a…
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...

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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the… — Albert Bandura
Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of… — Roseanne Barr
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. — Marc Bolan
How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not… — Hsu Yun
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace… — Chinua Achebe
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. — Roger L'Estrange
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly… — Oscar Wilde
He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives… — Orison Swett Marden
Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one… — Rajneesh
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. — William Osler
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. — Francis Quarles
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends. — William Shakespeare

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