Strife Quotes - Page 11

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.

Carl Jung

Philosophy, Teaching, Men

"Liber Novus".

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As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

Ivan Panin

Beautiful, Sea, Storm

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For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
Beat wild on this world's shore,
And all our calm is in that balm—
Not lost but gone before.

Caroline Norton

Life And Death, Gone, World

"Not Lost but Gone Before" (ca. 1850). Burton E. Stevenson, Home Book of Quotations, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations trace "Not lost, but gone before" and similar expressions to Seneca, St. Cyprian, and Matthew Henry.

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The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

Woodrow Wilson

Peace, Healing, Fighting

Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 88

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An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1991). “Why I Am an Atheist ; Including, A History of Materialism”, Amer Atheist Press

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This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain....Peace and harmony may reign in one person's world; where strife and restlessness in anothers. But whatever the circumstances of one's environment, it consists of both an inner and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of you determines your happiness or unhappiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

People, World, May

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One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

Heraclitus

War, Justice, Common

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The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

Laozi

Perfect, House, Design

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For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

Marcel Proust

School, Continuity Of Life, Theory

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.266, Modern Library

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O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

Walt Whitman

Death, Struggle, Gun

Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.51, Haskell House Pub Limited

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If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.

Frank Knight

Struggle, Mean, Revolution

Frank Hyneman Knight, Hubert Bonner (1947). “Freedom and reform: essays in economics and social philosophy”

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At end of Love, at end of Life, At end of Hope, at end of Strife' At end of all we cling to so- The sun is setting-we must go. At dawn of Love, at dawn of Life, At dawn of Peace that follows Strife, At dawn of all we long for so- The sun is rising-let us go.

Louise Chandler Moulton

Life, Long, Sun

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Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.

Joseph Fort Newton

Oasis, League, Definitions

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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

William Howard Taft

Responsibility, Character, Perfection

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Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.

Thomas Gray

Views, Comfort, Hue

Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.178

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To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tran- quilizing peace of God will never be far from us.

James Martineau

Angel, Sacrifice, Sorrow

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All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

Terry Eagleton

Spring, Desire, Strive

Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.145, John Wiley & Sons

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But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.

Empedocles

Fire, Air, Water

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Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.

Kurt Schwitters

Art, Expression, Intuition

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Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beautiful, Art, Truth Is

"Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 113), 1986.

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Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

Neil Young

Education, Learning, Abnormal

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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'

Heraclitus

Decay, Mixtures

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The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pain, Moving, Knowing

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In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.

Joel Beeke

Character, Law, Essence

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All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

Teresa of Avila

Patience, Strive, All Things

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