Thomas Stearns Eliot Quotes

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• Every moment is a fresh beginning.
• He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it
• We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we…
• And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
• Do I dare disturb the universe?
• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
• Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
• Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
• Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
• Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate…
• The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined…
• Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.
• I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,…
• Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
• Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to…
• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
• No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it…
• What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the…
• Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
• It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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