Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
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“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”
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“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
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“By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.”
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“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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“God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk.”
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“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”
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“I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”
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“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”
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“As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.”
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“the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!”
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“If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.”
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“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
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“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”
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“You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.”
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“Reach what you cannot”
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“For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.”
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“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”
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“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”
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“The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.”
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“Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.”
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“The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.”
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“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.”
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“When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.”
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“By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.”
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“All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. The more the intelligence unveils and violates the secrets of Nature, the more the danger increases and the heart shrinks.”
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“What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.”
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“The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.”
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“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.”
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