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Sense Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life…
- Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew…
- The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to…
- The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of…
- Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a…
- But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism…
- The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
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