The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about temptation, treason, bad, reason, rightness
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57 quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot - english poet, dramatist and literary critic
Also called: T. S. Eliot.
Was born on 26 sep 1888.
Died on 04 jan 1965, at 76 years old.
Died on 04 jan 1965, at 76 years old.
Origin country: United States
Biography: He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets.
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, poets, things
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about opinion
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about art, personality, sacrifice, progress, self-control, artists
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about soul, being
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about reality, absolute, ideal, real estate
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about people, old, olderness, world, man
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about world, end
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own...
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about art, faith, ability, virtue, magic, nothing
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature, religion
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.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about knowledge, end, time
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.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about end, beginning
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?
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about attitude, knowledge, wisdom, life
