Terry Eagleton Quotes
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Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
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All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.
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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.
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It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.
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If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.
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The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
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Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.
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We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.
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Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.
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In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.