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What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Men, Wings, Giving
Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

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

Nikos Kazantzakis
Men, Giving, Good Man
Nikos Kazantzakis (1983). “Freedom Or Death: A Novel”, Touchstone

Every obstacle in his journey became a milestone, an occasion for further triumph. We have a model in front of us now, a model who blazes our trail and gives us strength.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Strength, Journey, Giving
Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Order, Giving, Point Break
Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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!

Nikos Kazantzakis
Games, Giving, Gold
Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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