5 quotes
Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.
Attributed Reporter in Red China (1966)
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Attributed Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006)
You have your brush, you have your colours, you paint paradise, then, in you go.
Attributed
The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him.
Attributed Nikos Kazantzakis (1968)
Having seen that I was not capable of using all my resources in political action, I returned to my literary activity. There lay the battlefield suited to my temperament. I wanted to make my novels the extension of my own father's struggle for liberty. But gradually, as I kept deepening my responsibility as a writer, the human problem came to overshadow political and social questions. All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. The more the intelligence unveils and violates the secrets of Nature, the more the danger increases and the heart shrinks.
Attributed Nikos Kazantzakis (1968)