402 Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.

As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

Lord, bend me, or I shall rot. Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break. Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break!

Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

You do miracles if you concentrate your mind on one thing and one thing only.

As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.

Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.