the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goo…

Nikos Kazantzakis
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the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.269, Simon and Schuster
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the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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