Determinism Quote by Terry Eagleton Download Open image “Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.” — Terry Eagleton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Determinism Historical History Marxism Political Politics Recipes
“To acknowledge that history is not deterministic is to acknowledge that it is just a coincidence that most people today believe in nationalism, capitalism… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“History has proven time and time again that "Silence is never a good advocate for Change.” — Lawrence Sankar Copy Share Image
Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.” — Aldo Schiavone Copy Share Image
“If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism” — J.M.Coetzee Copy Share Image
“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. — Winston Churchill 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
It may seem unattainable but if you put actions, your heart and your mind into it, you will prevail. — London Mond Copy Share Image
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Never be tired of a dream, if not fulfilled. Fear of failure should not deter you from your path of self belief. Your belief… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
Ability determines how much you are capable, motivation determines how much you are interested and committed, attitude determines your approach to endeavor. — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Your age doesnt define your maturity, your grades dont define your intellect, and rumors dont define who you are. — Rajat Dogra Copy Share Image
If you encounter set back, never go backward. Make another attempt with all your might. Determination is the most powerful arsenal to convert a… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
I'll work and pray and hope and keep waiting, if that's what it takes to get to the right place, to be with the… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
