Nikos Kazantzakis

Wszyscy jesteśmy żerem dla robaków.

Za istotę ludzką może uważać się tylko ten, kto jest wolny.

Kto przyjmuje wolność z cudzych rąk, uzależnia się.

Prawdziwym znaczeniem oświecenia jest patrzenie niezmrużonymi oczami na wszystką ciemność.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darknesses.

Ostateczna, najświętsza forma teorii to działanie.

The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.

Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad!' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree?' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss?" - from Zorba the Greek

What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation. - from Report to Greco

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Idąc rozcinasz na oścież i tworzysz łożysko rzeki, w które strumień Twoich potomków powinien wkroczyć i płynąć.

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