Becoming Quote by Terry Eagleton

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

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

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

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

“Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.”

— Terry Eagleton

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

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

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

— Terry Eagleton

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

“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

“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

“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