Quotes by : Nikos Kazantzakis

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish.....

You know all about love, but that is not enough. You must also learn that hate comes from God as well,....

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved....

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively....

I did not know what I was going to do with my life; before anything else I wanted to find an answer,....

Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat....

Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue....