Quotes About Struggle

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.

Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

We live ruins amid ruins.

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.

Living on earth and expecting to be surrounded by angels?Sure recipe for a heartache!

How beautiful it is to have inner peace while knowing that everyone is busy with their own battles in life.

Either you suffer& die or you choose to fight& rebirth until dreams cometh true and reach you home.