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One 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…
- A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness,…
- Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it…
- For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
- 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…
- The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of…
- To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement…
- The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds.…
- One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but…
- Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted…
- I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.
- 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…
- 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…
More One Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- You've left a memory no one can steal, but you also left a heartache that no one can heal. — Nishan Panwar