Terry Eagleton Quotes

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• It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.
• Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
• Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.
• Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
• Nothing in human life is inherently private.
• Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
• The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.
• The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
• Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
• If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research…
• Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason…
• Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom.…
• A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent…
• Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility.…
• Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the…
• The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view…
• Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed…
• 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…
• The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining…
• In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

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