T. S. Eliot Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

  T. S. Eliot

  Women, Talking, Culture

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 13 (1917)

• A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

  T. S. Eliot

  Culture, Benefits, Should

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

  T. S. Eliot

  Passion, Emotional, Justice

• Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

  T. S. Eliot

  Culture, Sake, Aim

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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