“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
Source: Zorba the Greek
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Nikos Kazantzakis 222
Greek writer 1883–1957Related quotes
Trilogy, pt. 3 "Torture at H Block"
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 119.
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 5.
“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter X: The Leech and His Patient
His counsel on Humanism in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 32
“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”
As quoted in Reader's Digest (July 1972)
What Men Live By (1881)
Context: I thought: "I am perishing of cold and hunger, and here is a man thinking only of how to clothe himself and his wife, and how to get bread for themselves. He cannot help me. When the man saw me he frowned and became still more terrible, and passed me by on the other side. I despaired, but suddenly I heard him coming back. I looked up, and did not recognize the same man: before, I had seen death in his face; but now he was alive, and I recognized in him the presence of God.