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Nikos Kazantzakis quotes - page 10
Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.
Nikos Kazantzakis
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.
Nikos Kazantzakis
One of man's greatest obligations is anger.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Every man is half God, half man; he is both spirit and flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: It is universal.
Nikos Kazantzakis
I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free - not the Holy Sepulcher - but that God buried in matter and in our souls.
Nikos Kazantzakis
The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him.
Nikos Kazantzakis
O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.
Nikos Kazantzakis
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Nikos Kazantzakis
We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.
Nikos Kazantzakis
As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.
Nikos Kazantzakis
There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.
Nikos Kazantzakis
The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.
Nikos Kazantzakis
I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.
Nikos Kazantzakis
As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
Nikos Kazantzakis
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.
Nikos Kazantzakis
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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