The old, recognized virtues have begun to lose their authority; they are no longer able to fulfill the religious, moral, intellectual, and social demands of the contemporary soul. Man’s soul seems to have grown bigger; it cannot fit any longer within the old molds.
 Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco (1961). copy citation

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Author Nikos Kazantzakis
Source Report to Greco
Topic virtue authority
Date 1961
Language English
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Note Translated by P. A. Bien
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