The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

Air Blind Deaf Earth Hear Her Hold Lives Masses More Pull See Select Siren Songs Squander Them Within

Related Quotes

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

BeneathEarthFeet

Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

— Matthew Henry

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

— German Proverb