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Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.
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Habit Satisfaction Sin
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.
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Darkness Men Struggle
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.
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Gentle Heart Men Name Season
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
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Evil Fire Light People Thing
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!
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Book Entangle Ink Long
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.
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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.
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Change Cutting Descendant Flow
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Art Believe Creativity
The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
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Acting Action Hard Work
Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.
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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.
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Desire Discipline Men Strength
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis’s tomb in Heraklion, Greece
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Fear Hope Inscriptions
I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!
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Battle Life Posses Weapon
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.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
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Commentary Cry Soul
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.
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Desire Hero Together

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

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