Nikos Kazantzakis (February 18, 1883, Heraklion, Crete, Ottoman Empire - October 26, 1957, Freiburg, Germany) was arguably the most important and most translated Greek writer and philosopher of the 20th century
"What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specificbattlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation."