Deconstruction Quote by Terry Eagleton Download Open image “Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.” — Terry Eagleton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deconstruction Truth Truth is
Disinformation is more than just lying: it's the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon. — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good ethical motives,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“deconstruction is an attempt to break through hardened structures and traditions for the purpose of reengaging the stimulating, life-giving substance that gave rise to… — J. R. Daniel Kirk Copy Share Image
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Truth is an illusionary ideal, a structure with a foundation of opinion, garnished by selected facts, eroded over time and rebuilt new every generation.” — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth… — David Irving Copy Share Image
“Sophisticated people seem to think that "the truth" must always be dark, disappointing, disillusioning. But this is not so at all. Most of the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable,… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What we consume now is not objects or events, but our experience of them. Just as we never need to leave our cars, so… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact, to recognize;… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes without saying… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
“humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. we learn from nothing that we do. we create religions, heritage,… — Jeffrey Fischer Copy Share Image
Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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