Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.

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• The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Danger
  • Greatest
  • Stupidity

• Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Escape

• When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Money
  • Home
  • Baseball

• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • People
  • Know
  • Leader

• I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Happy
  • Excited
  • Very Happy

• Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Past
  • Control
  • Present

• Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Fire

• Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Window
  • Mirrors
  • Unhappiness

• Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.

  

  H. Burke Peterson
  • Criticism

• Control your life through insanity.

  

  Cliff Burton Metallica
  • Life
  • Control
  • Insanity

• To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Escape
  • Holy

• Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Ideals

• If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Attention
  • Tired

• What is and what is not create each other.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Create

• Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange" (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Consciousness
  • Destroyed
  • Existence Of God

• Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

  

  John Harington
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Enough

• All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Consciousness
  • Objects
  • Pointing