Maxioms by T. S. Eliot
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The read more
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.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is read more
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?
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They read more
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 What is worst of all is to advocate read more
Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion; and we may reflect that a good deal of the attention of totalitarian states has been devoted with a steadfastness of purpose not always found in democracies, to providing their national life with a foundation of morality -- the wrong kind, perhaps, but a good deal more of it. It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.
