Nikos Kazantzakis quotes - page 7

With clarity and quiet, I look upon the world and say: All that I see, hear, taste, smell, and touch are the creations of my mind. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
I cannot be contained in brains, in names, in deeds! View quote
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The essence of our God is obscure. View quote
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Within the province of our ephemeral flesh all of God is imperiled. He cannot be saved unless we save him with our own struggles; nor can we be saved unless he is saved. We are one. View quote
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What does There is no God mean? It means there is no bridle on our instincts, no reward for good or punishment for evil, no virtue, shame, or justice - that we are wolves and she-wolves in heat. View quote
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Whatever it might be, we fight on without certainty, and our virtue, uncertain of any rewards, acquires a profound nobility. View quote
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Today, in the unstable period of wrath, vengeance, and violence through which we are passing, the Jews are of necessity once again the chosen people of the terrible God of Exodus from the land of bondage. View quote
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Even the most humble insect and the most insignificant idea are the military encampments of God. View quote
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Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal. View quote
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It is our duty to help liberate that God who is stifling in us, in mankind, in masses of people living in darkness. View quote
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You are not free. Myriad invisible hands hold your hands and direct them. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. View quote
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We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light, Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence. But we have named it God because only this name, for primordial reasons, can stir our hearts profoundly. View quote
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These two armies, the dark and the light, the armies of life and of death, collide eternally. View quote
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This is the Supreme Duty of the man who struggles - to set out for the lofty peak which Christ, the first-born sone of salvation, attained. View quote
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A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. View quote
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How can anyone have a true sense of the Hebrew race without crossing this terrifying desert, without experiencing it? View quote
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Whatever rushes upward and helps God to ascend is good. Whatever drags downward and impedes God from ascending is evil. View quote
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All hopes and despairs vanish in the voracious, funneling whirlwind of God. View quote
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For our God is not an abstract thought, a logical necessity, a high and harmonious structure made of deductions and speculations. He is not an immaculate, neutral, odorless, distilled product of our brains, neither male nor female. He is both man and woman, mortal and immortal, dung and spirit. He gives birth, fecundates, slaughters - death and eros in one - and then he begets and slays once more, dancing spaciously beyond the boundaries of a logic which cannot contain the antinomies. View quote
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In a violent flash of lightning I discern on the highest peak of power the final, the most fearful pair embracing: Terror and Silence. And between them, a Flame. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Whoever has found the solution cannot find me. View quote
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Your third duty is to pass on to your son the great mandate to surpass you. View quote
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We are all one, we are all an imperiled essence. View quote
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Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies. View quote
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