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"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion." -
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Top 5 quotes from T.S. Eliot
"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
"In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause."
Top 5 quotes from Religion
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."
"It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary."
"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
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