“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?”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: life
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We know too much, and are convinced
“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
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: religion
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I had seen birth and death but
“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: death
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All significant truths are private truths. As
“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.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: best
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The communication of the dead is tongued
“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: communication
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I said to my soul, be still,
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: hope
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Television is a medium of entertainment which
“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.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: time
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is
“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: knowledge
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree:
“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: knowledge
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For love would be love of the
“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.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: hope
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Poetry may make us from time to
“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
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: time
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