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T. S. Eliot Quotes
American - Poet September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
T. S. Eliot

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
T. S. Eliot

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

You are the music while the music lasts.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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This love is silent.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
T. S. Eliot

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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Home is where one starts from.
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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April is the cruellest month.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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In my beginning is my end.
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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot

Martin Heidegger Quotes
German - Philosopher September 26, 1889 - May 26, 1976

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Martin Heidegger

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Martin Heidegger

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
Martin Heidegger

The possible ranks higher than the actual.
Martin Heidegger

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
Martin Heidegger

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
Martin Heidegger

True time is four-dimensional.
Martin Heidegger

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
Martin Heidegger

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
Martin Heidegger

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Martin Heidegger

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
Martin Heidegger

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
Martin Heidegger

To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Martin Heidegger

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
Martin Heidegger

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
Martin Heidegger

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Martin Heidegger

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
Martin Heidegger

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
Martin Heidegger

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Only a god can save us.
Martin Heidegger

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
Martin Heidegger

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin Heidegger

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
Martin Heidegger

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Martin Heidegger

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
Martin Heidegger

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
Martin Heidegger

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Martin Heidegger

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Some of my favorite quotes were said by Erasmus or used as excuses (see library/books). Wonder if anybody now remembers what Trotsky started?
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