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All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill. — Terry Eagleton

The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster. — Terry Eagleton

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure. — Terry Eagleton

Marxists want nothing more than to stop being Marxists. In this respect, being a Marxist is nothing like being a Buddhist or a billionaire. — Terry Eagleton

But if we are not given his real name, then he does not have one. — Terry Eagleton

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power. — Terry Eagleton

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning. — Terry Eagleton

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking. — Terry Eagleton

Literary works quite often 'know' things that the reader does not know, or does not know yet, or perhaps will never know. — Terry Eagleton

Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can't be used as a totem or fetish in that way. — Terry Eagleton

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. — Terry Eagleton

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. — Terry Eagleton

We live in a world in which there is nothing that cannot be narrated, but nothing that needs to be either. — Terry Eagleton

To relate a Beethoven sonata to the testicles is hardly in the style of traditional aesthetics. — Terry Eagleton

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile. — Terry Eagleton

If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism. — Terry Eagleton

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith — Terry Eagleton

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night. — Terry Eagleton

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human. — Terry Eagleton

Astonishingly, we are saved not by a special apparatus known as religion, but by the quality of our everyday relations with one another. — Terry Eagleton

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason. — Terry Eagleton

The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation. — Terry Eagleton

It is thus the adventure of poetry, not the closure of philosophy, that most truly reflects the human condition. — Terry Eagleton

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal. — Terry Eagleton

Middle paths in tragedy are in notably short supply. — Terry Eagleton

I hope to show in the process that critical analysis can be fun, and in doing so help to demolish the myth that analysis is the enemy of enjoyment. — Terry Eagleton

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black. — Terry Eagleton

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. — Terry Eagleton

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing. — Terry Eagleton

Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach. — Terry Eagleton

When the Dublin-born Beckett was asked by a Parisian journalist whether he was English, he replied, 'On the contrary. — Terry Eagleton

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced. — Terry Eagleton

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press. — Terry Eagleton

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health. — Terry Eagleton

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures. — Terry Eagleton

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant. — Terry Eagleton

Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do. — Terry Eagleton

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world — Terry Eagleton

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. — Terry Eagleton

Poetry is concerned not just with the meaning of experience, but with the experience of meaning. — Terry Eagleton

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. — Terry Eagleton

Literary' feelings are responses to poems, not just states of emotion which occur in their presence. — Terry Eagleton

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it. — Terry Eagleton

What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods and vermin is ideology. — Terry Eagleton

Baa Baa Black Sheep' makes Marx's Capital look like Mary Poppins. — Terry Eagleton

That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature. — Terry Eagleton

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace. — Terry Eagleton

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs. — Terry Eagleton

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage. — Terry Eagleton

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism. — Terry Eagleton

Culture was now largely a matter of how to keep people harmlessly distracted when they were not working. — Terry Eagleton

The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does. — Terry Eagleton

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture. — Terry Eagleton

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means. — Terry Eagleton

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket. — George McGovern

It may well be that a liking for bananas is a merely private matter, though this is in fact questionable. — Terry Eagleton

The fascinating is only a step away from the freakish. — Terry Eagleton

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. — Terry Eagleton

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired. — Terry Eagleton

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic. — Terry Eagleton

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades. — Terry Eagleton

To be outside any situation whatsoever is known as being dead. — Terry Eagleton

If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing. — Terry Eagleton

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors! — Terry Eagleton

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. — Terry Eagleton

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton

If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them. — Terry Eagleton

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

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself. — Terry Eagleton

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate. — Terry Eagleton

Nationalism is like class. You have to have it in order to be rid of it. — Terry Eagleton

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. — Terry Eagleton

[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason. — Terry Eagleton

[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists. — Terry Eagleton

It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it. — Terry Eagleton

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry. — Terry Eagleton

Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it. — Terry Eagleton

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism. — Terry Eagleton

Nature is a bottom-line concept. — Terry Eagleton

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours. — Terry Eagleton

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures. — Terry Eagleton

Nothing in human life is inherently private. — Terry Eagleton

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic. — Terry Eagleton

It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd. — Terry Eagleton

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes. — Terry Eagleton

You don't bring about major political change simply by changing people's minds. It's their interests that need to be assailed, not their opinions. — Terry Eagleton

Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one. — Terry Eagleton

the artist can never quite get on terms with God, who as far as creation goes has got there first and pulled off a product hard to beat. — Terry Eagleton