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More Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.
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 their own.
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
