Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISBe sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISTo cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISLions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISWhat a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISFree yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the longer the tether of our slavery?
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISDiscipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISAs you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISBeauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISI hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis’s tomb in Heraklion, Greece
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISTrue teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISHow could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISThe ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISMy entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISHappy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISFreedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind’s supreme model.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKISBy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS