T. S. Eliot Quotes, Views Quotes, Empathy Quotes

From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

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Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

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And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

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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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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

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The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

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You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

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…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God.

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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

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We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

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I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

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I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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