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

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

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

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 quotes: Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

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

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

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 quotes: But if we are not given his real name, then he does not have one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

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

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

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

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

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

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

Terry Eagleton quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Middle paths in tragedy are in notably short supply.

Middle paths in tragedy are in notably short supply.

Terry Eagleton quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

Terry Eagleton quotes: Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

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

Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Terry Eagleton quotes: Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Terry Eagleton quotes: 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.

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

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

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

The fascinating is only a step away from the freakish.

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

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

Terry Eagleton quotes: 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.

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

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 quotes: If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.

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

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

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

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

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

Terry Eagleton quotes: 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!

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 quotes: Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

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

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

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

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

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

Terry Eagleton quotes: Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

Terry Eagleton quotes: Nature is a bottom-line concept.

Nature is a bottom-line concept.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

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

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Terry Eagleton quotes: Nothing in human life is inherently private.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

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

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

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

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

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

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

Terry Eagleton quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

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