Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Forget everything you've ever learned about the stars and they'll once more be transformed into angels, or into children, or into whatever you want to believe at that moment. It won't make you more stupid - after all, it's only a game - but it could enrich your life.

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.

The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

By seeing differently, we do differently

I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.