Die blinden nikos kazantzakis biography

Nikos Kazantzakis (18 February – 26 October) was a Greek novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.

Quotes

• I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear.

• We are not simplepeople who believe in happiness; nor weaklings who skrynkla to the ground in distress at the first reverse; nor skeptics observing the bloody effort of marching humanity from the lofty heights of a mocking, sterile wit. Believing in the fight, though we entertain no illusions about it, we are armed against every disappointment.

• God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

• We, who are dying, are doing better, than they, who will live. For Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal.

• I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God."
  and the almond tree blossomed.

• Every perfect traveller always creates t
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Nikos Kazantzakis &#; I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free.

Kapetan Michalis was his father

Nikos Kazantzakis was born on a Friday, the holy ‘day of souls’. “…The old midwife clutched me in her hands, brought me close to the light, and looked at me with great care. She seemed to see some kind of mystic signs on me. Lifting me high, she said, ‘Mark my words, one day this child will become a bishop’.” (Report to Greco, transl. Bien, P., p) His father, Kapetan Michalis, inscribed the exact date of his son’s birth, February 18, , on the back of an icon, a tradition he kept with the birth dates of all his children, two boys and two girls. Not all of them lived; Nikos’s brother, Giorgos (b), died in infancy, sinking the family in grief.

The author of Zorba the Greek perhaps was meant to launch his professional life as a lawyer, and not as author or journalist. This was certainly his father’s aspiration for him. Nikos was to excel in his legal studies, and then pursue a caree

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Nikos Kazantzakis (Heraklion, - , Freiburg)

Nikos Kazantzakis*.


1. This world, the post-war one, where we are living in, is so rotten, immoral and unworthy of even a moderate man, that every attempt to break it down seems- and is- sacred. 

That is why today all honest people, all those who set justice, freedom and light as goals of the social life, regard the demolition of the rotten, dishonored, old foolish world as their first duty.

2. The second duty, the positive one, of every honest man today is: the effort to create a better world, where what call light or God or rise will be dominate. 

This effort, the heroic one, the martyred one, has been taken and realized- this is her terrific historical mission- by Soviet Russia. This is today the creative turbine, the rotating sparkling nebula, which is constantly shaping and condensing and creating- this is now the only hope of the people- the new, better world. 

And all of us are spiralling alon