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 Read Quote
I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability. Nikos Kazantzakis Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. Nikos Kazantzakis Read Quote
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 Read Quote
