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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.
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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
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
— Terry Eagleton
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
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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
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
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
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
— 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
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
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
Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.
— 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
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.
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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
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
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
Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
— Terry Eagleton
Nature is a bottom-line concept.
— Terry Eagleton
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
— Terry Eagleton
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[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.
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[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.
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Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
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In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
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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
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
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It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
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Nothing in human life is inherently private.
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History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
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It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.
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