Nikos Kazantzakis (; February 18, 1883 – October 26, 1957) was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum opus. He became known globally after the 1964 release of the Michael Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek, based on the novel. He gained renewed fame with the 1988 Martin Scorsese adaptation of his book The Last Temptation of Christ.
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| - Nikos Kazantzakis (; February 18, 1883 – October 26, 1957) was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum opus. He became known globally after the 1964 release of the Michael Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek, based on the novel. He gained renewed fame with the 1988 Martin Scorsese adaptation of his book The Last Temptation of Christ.
- In 1910, he traveled to the hanging monasteries near Kalambaka to do some research in the library. While he was reading, he met a young Indiana Jones, who was working on a homework assignment on the relationship between logic and causality. Kazantzakis helped the young Jones by explaining the essence of causality to him, using an rolling orange as an example. After his student grasped the idea, Kazantzakis recited a poem he had written about the goal of nature, and Jones asked about the cause of nature. This prompted Kazantzakis to discuss the role of wisdom, which is greater than logic. Jones used the lessons he learned from Kazantzakis in his report, which later his father read. Henry Jones, Sr. felt that Kazantzakis was less a philosopher and poet, and more a romantic.
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| - Nikos Kazantzakis (; February 18, 1883 – October 26, 1957) was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum opus. He became known globally after the 1964 release of the Michael Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek, based on the novel. He gained renewed fame with the 1988 Martin Scorsese adaptation of his book The Last Temptation of Christ.
- In 1910, he traveled to the hanging monasteries near Kalambaka to do some research in the library. While he was reading, he met a young Indiana Jones, who was working on a homework assignment on the relationship between logic and causality. Kazantzakis helped the young Jones by explaining the essence of causality to him, using an rolling orange as an example. After his student grasped the idea, Kazantzakis recited a poem he had written about the goal of nature, and Jones asked about the cause of nature. This prompted Kazantzakis to discuss the role of wisdom, which is greater than logic. Jones used the lessons he learned from Kazantzakis in his report, which later his father read. Henry Jones, Sr. felt that Kazantzakis was less a philosopher and poet, and more a romantic. "Can you really accept something as being true without any proof?" ―Nikos Kazantzakis
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