All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All ou… - T. S. Eliot

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All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an American-born English poet, dramatist and literary critic. Noted for spiritual and religious themes in many of his poems, he converted from Unitarianism to Anglicanism in 1927.

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Alternative Names: Eliot • T S Eliot • Thomas Eliot • T.S. Eliot

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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

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