Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.

All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars.

Problems are messages.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Art like life is an open secret.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.