black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis’s tomb in Heraklion, Greece
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

Fear Hope Inscriptions
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

Darkness Men Struggle
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 KAZANTZAKIS

Believe Hands Honesty
To succeed, you must first believe you can.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

Believe Billiard First Trust
Free 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 KAZANTZAKIS

Mean Passion Sacrifice
Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

Condition Life People Purpose Service
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

Desire Discipline Men Strength
How 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 KAZANTZAKIS

Book Entangle Ink Long
To 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 KAZANTZAKIS

Gentle Heart Men Name Season
Happy 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 KAZANTZAKIS

Believe Heart Justice
As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

Change Cutting Descendant Flow
I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

Do Not Fear Heart Mind
Freedom 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 KAZANTZAKIS

Desire Hero Together
True 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 KAZANTZAKIS

Education Inspirational Teacher
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

Evil Fire Light People Thing
Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

Habit Satisfaction Sin

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes