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Ideas Quotes by Terry Eagleton
- What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how…
- I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how…
- Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of…
- 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.…
- 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.
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love… — Rajneesh
- I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe