Everything you do reverberates throughout a thousand destinies. As you…

Everything you do reverberates throughout a thousand destinies. As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

Sourced, The Saviors of God (1923)

Other Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

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At every moment of crisis an array of men risk their lives in the front ranks as standard-bearers of God to fight and take upon themselves the whole responsibility of the battle.
Once long ago it was the priests, the kings, the noblemen, or the burghers who created civilizations and set divinity free.
Today God is the common worker made savage by toil and rage and hunger - View Quote Details on At every moment of crisis an array of men risk…
This is our epoch, good or bad, beautiful or ugly, rich or poor — we did not choose it. This is our epoch, the air we breathe, the mud given us, the bread, the fire, the spirit!
Let us accept Necessity courageously. It is our lot to have fallen on fighting times. Let us tighten our belts, let us arm our hearts, our minds, and our bodies. Let us take our place in battle! - View Quote Details on This is our epoch, good or bad, beautiful or ugly,…
With silent strides Odysseus then shot back the bolt,
passed lightly through the courtyard and sped down the street.
Some saw him take the graveyard’s zigzag mountain path,
some saw him leap on rocks that edged the savage shore,
some visionaries saw him in the dead of night
swimming and talking secretly with the sea-demons,
but only a small boy saw him in a lonely dream
sit crouched and weeping by the dark sea’s foaming edge. - View Quote Details on With silent strides Odysseus then shot back the bolt,
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Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only!
Balanced on God’s strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap
together like two mighty wings and lift him high. - View Quote Details on Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only!
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The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. - View Quote Details on The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond…
The moment is ripe: leave the heart and the mind behind you, go forward, take the third step.
Free yourself from the simple complacency of the mind that thinks to put all things in order and hopes to subdue phenomena. Free yourself from the terror of the heart that seeks and hopes to find the essence of things.
Conquer the last, the greatest temptation of all: Hope. This is the third duty. - View Quote Details on The moment is ripe: leave the heart and the mind…
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.
Not to look on passively while the spark leaps from generation to generation, but to leap and to burn with it! - View Quote Details on The ultimate most holy form of theory is action…
Which of the two eternal roads shall I choose? Suddenly I know that my whole life hangs on this decision — the life of the entire Universe.
Of the two, I choose the ascending path. Why? For no intelligible reason, without any certainty; I know how ineffectual the mind and all the small certainties of man can be in this moment of crisis.
I choose the ascending path because my heart drives me toward it. “Upward! Upward! Upward!” my heart shouts, and I follow it trustingly. - View Quote Details on Which of the two eternal roads shall I choose? Suddenly…