Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.
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I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
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I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.
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It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure, ... I can't tell people what flag to fly.
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Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.
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No one is looking at what President Obama is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a bikini pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day.
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There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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There's a slight problem with the majority counsel's epiphany as it has been passed down to the managers and then to you.
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The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.
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Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.
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There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.
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Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.
