T. S. Eliot

Home is where one starts from. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#starts #where

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#fear #handful #i #show #will

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

— T. S. Eliot

#being #books #distracted #dodging #elevation

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#greatest #last #reason #right #temptation

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#best #cease #character #facts #part

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#knowledge #lost #where

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. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#done #due #feel #half #harm

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#birth #different #had #i #seen

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#nasty #negative

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#character #diminished #importance #insignificance #knowledge