Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

"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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"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."
Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek
"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 theirown."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"One of man's greatest obligations is anger."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"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
"I felt deep within me that 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!"
Nikos Kazantzakis
"Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humour, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"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 is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"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
"My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."
Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek
"“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.”"
Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek
"Life's true face is the skull."
Nikos Kazantzakis
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