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From The Saviors of God (1927; English 1960):
"We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have
named this circle God. We might have given it any other name
we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light,
Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval, life."
Greece has an exquisite modern philosophical background. Wherever you go, each island or mountain you visit, you will discover a very singular moral status. Sometimes, Greece is incongruous with the characterisation " a ...more
"We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have
named this circle God. We might have given it any other name
we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light,
Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval, life."
Greece has an exquisite modern philosophical background. Wherever you go, each island or mountain you visit, you will discover a very singular moral status. Sometimes, Greece is incongruous with the characterisation " a ...more

“
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek

“
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it鈥檚 born with us the day that we are born.
”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
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