Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets.
“In my end is my beginning.”
“We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.”
“The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.”
“Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past.”
“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.”
“Footfalls echo in the memorydown the passage we did not taketowards the door we never openedinto the rose garden. My words echothus, in your mind”
“The divine arts; Humankind, Nature, Stars, Sun, Moon, Sea....!”
“The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.”
“Language is a social energy, and our capacity for articulate speech is the key factor that makes us different from other species. We are not as fast as cheetahs or even as horses. Nor are we as st...”
“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”
“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”
“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”