“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
“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.”
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
“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 (1888-1965)
“Distracted from distraction by distraction”
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Half 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. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)