T. S. Eliot Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophy, Purple, Tree

• Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Life, Romantic

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

• A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophy, Effort, Understanding

• A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.

  T. S. Eliot

  Faith, Philosophy, Discipline

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