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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I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

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The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

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Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.

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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

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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.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

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Distracted from distraction by distraction

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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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