Greek - Writer | February 18, 1883 - October 26, 1957
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
GodMeControlDemonsYouRun
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
TravelPerfectCountryAlwaysWhere
Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.
FeetHeavenEarthNothingWithinUs
All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.
LifeGreatDeathMindThoughtNew
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.
GodManMysteryWhySpiritHalf
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.
SoulNothingMudHumanCertainty
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!
KnowledgeManMeVictoryDeepMore
Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.
WomanFaceMysteriousSacredBehind
What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!
LifeRootsDeepDownMeetMiracle
That part of Christ's nature which was profoundly human helps us to understand him and love him and to pursue his Passion as though it were our own. If he had not within him this warm human element, he would never be able to touch our hearts with such assurance and tenderness; he would not be able to become a model for our lives.
NatureLovePassionWarmUnderstand
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
WorkSoulCryCommentaryEntire
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.
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