T. S. Eliot Quotes, Past Quotes, Hints Quotes

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Past Quotes , Laughing Quotes

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

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Past all shame, so past all truth.

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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Past Quotes , Ideas Quotes

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

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No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

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All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Taken Quotes , Past Quotes

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Past Quotes , Different Experiences Quotes

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Past Quotes

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Past Quotes , Desire Quotes

Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Past Quotes , Lasts Quotes

Lose what? A man only has a soul to be won or lost; apart from his life, he has nothing. Past or future lives do not matter - at the moment you are living this one, and you should do so with silent comprehension, joy and enthusiasm. What you must not lose is your enthusiasm.

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The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dream Quotes , Past Quotes

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Lying Quotes , Past Quotes

But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , War Quotes , Past Quotes

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

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Tags : A. R. Ammons Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Past Quotes

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Past Quotes , Dry Bones Quotes