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Thinker · 11 quotes
11 sourced quotes by T. S. Eliot on ethics & morality, culture, art & literature, governance & administration, education & knowledge, environment & sustainability, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is shall shadow The man that pretends to be.
The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest—for it is a part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore.
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 only by literary standards.
Long ago I studied the ancient Indian languages, and while I was chiefly interested at that time in philosophy, I read a little poetry too; and I know that my own poetry shows the influence of Indian thought and sensibility.
The work of creation is never without travail.
I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.