Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes About Virtue
-
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
→ -
I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by that inhuman flame which burns in our black bowels. I like to name that flame which burns within me God!
→ -
May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives but bad receipts for payment in the lower world. Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go, all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game!
→ -
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
→ -
Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.
→
Related Authors
-
Homer Author -
Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist -
Irene Papas Film actress -
Lawrence Durrell Novelist -
Gregory Peck Actor -
Ezra Pound Poet -
Giannis Ritsos Poet -
C.P. Cavafy Poet -
Henri Bergson Philosopher -
T. S. Eliot Playwright -
Anthony Quinn Actor -
-
E. M. Forster Novelist -
Martin Scorsese Film director -
Daniel Mendelsohn Memoirist -
El Greco Painter -
Kiki Dimoula Poet -
Fernando Pessoa Poet -
W. H. Auden Poet -
Giorgos Seferis Poet