“Between the desireAnd the spasm,Between the potencyAnd the existence,Between the essenceAnd the descent,Falls the Shadow.”
More from T. S. Eliot on Philosophy
“We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.Now is the triumph of the cross.”
“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?”
“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
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”