“We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.Now is the triumph of the cross.”
More from T. S. Eliot on Philosophy
“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”
“Do I dare Disturb the universe?”
“Between the desireAnd the spasm,Between the potencyAnd the existence,Between the essenceAnd the descent,Falls the Shadow.”
“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
“This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.”
“Your burden is not to clear your conscienceBut to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.”
“Distracted from distraction by distraction”
“A condition of complete simplicity(Costing not less than everything)”
“There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.”
Others on Philosophy
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Charlotte Brontë
13 quotes“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are...”