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Terry Eagleton Quotes

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name Picture Quote #1

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost much to be housed Picture Quote #1

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs Picture Quote #1

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was Picture Quote #1

It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd Picture Quote #1

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong Picture Quote #1

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All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill Picture Quote #1

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic Picture Quote #1

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures Picture Quote #1

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional Picture Quote #1

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech Picture Quote #1

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it Picture Quote #1

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Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry Picture Quote #1

It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it Picture Quote #1

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant Picture Quote #1

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason Picture Quote #1

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health Picture Quote #1

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture Picture Quote #1

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The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it Picture Quote #1

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black Picture Quote #1

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name Picture Quote #1

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves Picture Quote #1

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism Picture Quote #1

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith Picture Quote #1

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There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power Picture Quote #1

The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does Picture Quote #1

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all Picture Quote #1

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are Picture Quote #1

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility Picture Quote #1

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired Picture Quote #1

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Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. (Terry Eagleton Quotes) In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost much to be housed. (Terry Eagleton Quotes) Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs. (Terry Eagleton Quotes) After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. (Terry Eagleton Quotes) It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd (Terry Eagleton Quotes) God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong (Terry Eagleton Quotes) All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill (Terry Eagleton Quotes) History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic (Terry Eagleton Quotes) Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures (Terry Eagleton Quotes) Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional (Terry Eagleton Quotes) Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech (Terry Eagleton Quotes) Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it (Terry Eagleton Quotes) Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry (Terry Eagleton Quotes) It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it (Terry Eagleton Quotes) Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant (Terry Eagleton Quotes) Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason (Terry Eagleton Quotes) It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health (Terry Eagleton Quotes) The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture (Terry Eagleton Quotes) The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it (Terry Eagleton Quotes) In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black (Terry Eagleton Quotes) The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name (Terry Eagleton Quotes) Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves (Terry Eagleton Quotes) Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism (Terry Eagleton Quotes) As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith (Terry Eagleton Quotes) There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power (Terry Eagleton Quotes) The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does (Terry Eagleton Quotes) All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all (Terry Eagleton Quotes) People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are (Terry Eagleton Quotes) In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility (Terry Eagleton Quotes) Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired (Terry Eagleton Quotes)

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