I do not know whether behind appearances there lives and moves a secre — Nikos Kazantzakis

"We must understand well that we do not proceed from a unity of God to the same unity of God again. We do not proceed from one chaos to another chaos, neither from one light to another light, nor from one darkness to another darkness. What would be the value of our life then? What would be the value of all life? But we set out from an almighty chaos, from a thick abyss of light and darkness tangled. And we struggle — plants, animals, men, ideas — in this momentary passage of individual life, to put in order the Chaos within us, to cleanse the abyss, to work upon as much darkness as we can within our bodies and to transmute it into light."

"We, who are dying, are doing better, than they, who will live. For Crete doesnt need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal."

"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."

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

"The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him."

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