Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek Writer
Born: Feb 18, 1883
Died: Oct 26, 1957
God Life Man Me Soul You
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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. Nikos Kazantzakis
Hope Fear Free Nothing Am
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. Nikos Kazantzakis
Eyes Darkness Gaze Real Real Meaning Meaning Meaning Of Enlightenment
True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. Nikos Kazantzakis
Own Collapse Cross Crossing Having Students True Invite Over Joyfully Encouraging Which Them Themselves Then Create Use Teachers Bridges
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. Nikos Kazantzakis
Travel Country Every Perfect He Always Where Creates Traveler Travels
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed. Nikos Kazantzakis
God Soul Courage Joy Enemy Devil Others Everything Destroy Destroyed See All-Powerful Rush Some Seem Wrong Invisible Call Him Test Goes Endurance Us Your
Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it. Nikos Kazantzakis
Happiness Water Simple Everyday Miracle Like Aware
May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again! Nikos Kazantzakis
God Me You Dangerous Will Control Release Run Sly Shameless Open Alphabet Terribly How Demons Off Frighten Get Forgive Forgive Me May Again Them Ever Letters
Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us. Nikos Kazantzakis
Nothing Beneath Our Earth Feet Within Than Heaven Us Nearer Tread
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. Nikos Kazantzakis
You Beauty Merciless Look Looks Does Forgive
Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. Nikos Kazantzakis
World Everything Hidden Meaning
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry. Nikos Kazantzakis
Work Soul All My Work Entire Cry Commentary
Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. Nikos Kazantzakis
Woman Face Rises Mysterious Sacred Austere Behind Each
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation... God does not love weak souls and flabby flesh. The spirit desires to wrestle with flesh which is strong and full of resistance. It is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear. Nikos Kazantzakis
Love God Man Struggle Together Strong Bird Longing Everyone Weak Hungry Out Reconciliation Spirit Eats Wrestle Disappear Between Makes Does Souls Flabby Which Breaks Flesh Full Incessantly Assimilating Resistance Desires
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 realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. Nikos Kazantzakis
Happiness Happy Sometimes Past Difficulty Back Astonishment Only Had Look How Been Being Experiencing Realise While Suddenly Conscious
My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. Nikos Kazantzakis
Battle Has-Been Spirit Anguish Merciless Between Joys Principal Sorrows Wellspring Been Flesh Incessant
What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one! Nikos Kazantzakis
Life Down Meet Alike Miracle Souls How Send Roots Deep
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. Nikos Kazantzakis
Death Day Soul Eyes Conflict Men Long Duty Weak Out Responsible Spirit Day And Night Between Until Supreme Contest Becomes Does Itself Very May Ends Endurance Heavy Breaks Flesh Who Keep Among Grows Resist Last Night
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight. Nikos Kazantzakis
Life Death Fight Trouble Alive Only Look Your Belt
In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through. Nikos Kazantzakis
God Man Christ Sacrifice Summit Cross Struggles Through Passed Passes Mount Order Stages Which Who
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle. Nikos Kazantzakis
Life Dreams Me Struggle Men My Life Few Living Throughout Dead Greatest Been Very Few Men Helped Travels
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty. Nikos Kazantzakis
Soul Nothing Perceptions Divine Clearly Still Human Heavy Clumsy Held Mud Flesh Coarse Certainty Human Soul
One of man's greatest obligations is anger. Nikos Kazantzakis
Man Anger Obligations Greatest
Every man is half God, half man; he is both spirit and flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: It is universal. Nikos Kazantzakis
God Man Christ Half Every Spirit Both Mystery He Simply Particular Flesh Why Universal Creed Every Man

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