Quotes by Eric Gill

“Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.”

“Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.”

“Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.”

“Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why”

“to rebuild the labor movement.”

“I will not be out there mornings,”

“There have been no discussions to my knowledge about it.”

“I dont know if its exactly necessary to have someone. Im not sure.”

“Many significant changes and events have occurred in the past two decades.”

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes only when he is not at work.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes without religion he cannot know why.

“Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.”