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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

T. S. Eliot
Kindness, Reality, Atheism
Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

T. S. Eliot
Men, Atheism, Happened
T.S. Eliot (2009). “Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot”, p.100, Faber & Faber

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

T. S. Eliot
Christian, Atheism, Foundation
T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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