T. S. Eliot Quotes, Country Quotes, Independent Quotes

No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

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Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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We should not confuse information with knowledge.

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Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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So the lover must struggle for words.

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Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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The naming of cats is a difficult matter

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Humankind can't stand too much reality.

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I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

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Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

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