Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.
Quotes to Explore
-
I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
-
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
-
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
-
Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
-
I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
-
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
-
I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
-
We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
-
It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
-
Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.
-
All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
-
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
-
Any team can have a bad century.
-
Shelley was kicked out of Oxford-I think the story is unauthenticated, but who cares-because he painted a sign on the end wall of a dead-end alley: THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. I feel that every now and then his sign needs repainting.
-
I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
-
Phish in San Diego...I saw them play an unbelievable fucking show, which, I can honestly say, changed my life. I was physically torn apart and spiritually moved by the experience.
-
If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field?
-
In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.
-
'What is my identity?' 'Nothing,' said the Master. 'You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?' said the incredulous disciple. 'Nothing that can be labeled.' said the Master.
-
Whatever you've accomplished there's always more to experience.
-
My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.
-
Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.
-
Used as "No matter how you struggle and strive, you never get out of this world alive" on the Babyshambles music-video for the single "The Blinding".
-
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.
